When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at age ninety-one in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. Spanning the years 1907 to 1933, it offers a compelling eyewitness account of the rise of Hitler and Nazism.

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Sebastian Haffner

Memoirs

George Weidenfeld & Nicolson L

A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER.  Sebastian Haffner examines Hitler's lifespan, his performance, his successes, errors, intellectual misconceptions, crimes and, last but not least, his great betrayal of his nation, the Western world and human civilisation.  'What makes Haffner's book different is that it is not one more biography but an analysis - a most penetrating analysis - of what Hitler was up to in his astonishing career' A.L. Rowse  'Mr Haffner...has exposed better, and more briefly, than anyone else the clockwork of that infernal machine'  Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Sunday Telegraph

The meaning of Hitler

Harvard University Press

Prussia, a state which contributed so much to European civilization, only exis-ted as an independent power for 170 years. Sebastian Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reassesses the legend and tells the short but dramatic history of this unique state. He casts fresh light on its foundation, its struggle to become a great power in the eighteenth century, its important role as one of the Three Black Eagles with Austria and Russia, and its eventual disappearance from the map of Europe after the establishment of the German Empire.

The rise and fall of Prussia

History

Europe

Weidenfeld And Nicolson Limited

Prussia, a state which contributed so much to European civilization, only exis-ted as an independent power for 170 years. Sebastian Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reassesses the legend and tells the short but dramatic history of this unique state. He casts fresh light on its foundation, its struggle to become a great power in the eighteenth century, its important role as one of the Three Black Eagles with Austria and Russia, and its eventual disappearance from the map of Europe after the establishment of the German Empire.

The Rise and Fall of Prussia

Phoenix Giants

Chronicles the history of Germany from 1871 to 1945, detailing how the seeds of Germany's decline were planted during Bismarck's Second Reich and how they came to a bitter fruition in the Third Reich of Hitler

The ailing empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler

Fromm International Pub. Corp

A noted German journalist explains why Hitler's campaign to transform the crippled republic of the 1930s into a military and industrial power convinced Germans at all levels of society that he was the nation's savior

The Meaning of Hitler

Phoenix_Press

Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but only published now for the first time) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of himself and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and brilliantly explains through his own experiences and those of his friends how that generation came to be seduced by Hitler and Nazism. The Germans lacked an outlet for self-expression: where the French had amour, food and wine, and the British their gardens and their pets, the Germans had nothing, leading to a tendency towards mass psychosis. The upheaval of post-WWI revolution, factionalism and inflation left the Germans addicted to excitement and action: Hitler provided this, and more.

Defying Hitler : A Memoir

Churchill (Life & Times)

Haus Pub.

Germany: Jekyll & Hyde 1939 Deutschland von innen betrachtet

Verlag 1900

The Meaning of Hitler (Chinese Edition)

Yilin Press

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