(P/B) THE "HITLER MYTH"

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Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily powerful hold over the German people. In this 'major contribution to the study of the Third Reich' (Times Literary Supplement), Ian Kershaw argues that it lay not so much in Hitler's personality or his bizarre Nazi ideology, as in the social and political values of the people themselves. In charting the creation, rise, and fall of the `Hitler Myth', he demonstrates the importance of the manufactured 'Fuhrer cult' to the attainment of Nazi political ends, and how the Nazis used the new techniques of propaganda to exploit and build on the beliefs, phobias, and prejudices of the day. (From the publisher)

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Introduction
PART ONE: The Making of the 'Hitler Myth', 1920-1940
1: 'Fuhrer of the Coming Germany': The Hitler Image in the Weimar Era
2: 'Symbol of the Nation': The Propaganda Profile of Hitler, 1933-1936
3: 'Fuhrer without Sin': Hitler and the 'Little Hitlers'
'The Fuhrer restores Order': 'The Night of the Long Knives', 30 June 1934
The 'Little Hitlers': The Image of the Local Party Bosses
4.: The Fuhrer versus the Radicals: Hitler's Image and the 'Church Struggle'
5: Hitler the Statesman: War and Peace in the Balance
'Triumph without Bloddshed'
Tension
War
PART TWO: The Breaking of the 'Hitler Myth', 1940-1945
6.: Blitzkrieg Triumph: High Peak of Popularity, 1940-1941
7.: The War turns Sour: The 'Hitler Myth' starts to crumble
8.: Defeat and Disaster: The 'Hitler Myth' collapses
PART THREE: The 'Hitler Myth' and the Path to Genecide
9.: Hitler's popular Image and the 'Jewish Question'
Conclusion