Hitler volker ullrich

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    • Everyone concerned about democracy should read this book.

    A superb biography of the Führer’s pre-war years… It is a tribute to Ullrich’s absorbing biography that one contemplates its second volume with a shudder.

    [A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstances, chance, a ruthless individual and the wilful blindness of others can transform a country.

    A substantial addition to the Fuhrer canon.

    Where Ullrich adds greatly to our understanding is by making the mercurial, changeable and…profoundly unknowable Hitler believable… This is a major achievement… Impressive and revealing biography.

    An eye-opening and enlightening re-examination of the life of the German dictator… As well written as it is informative, this moves the debate on Hitler to a new level.

    If Ullrich’s picture fails to present the Führer as a man of depth, it succeeds brilliantly – and so requires to be read as widely as possible – in capturing the instinctive populist.

    In a most impressive and massive account, [Volker Ullrich] adds telling details and subtle nuances to the dictator’s portrait and provides a fresh perspective on his rise. The result is a must-read book that is bound to be a critical and commercial success.

    [Ullrich] does not go out of his way to belittle his subject and the vulnerabilities he calmly exposes heighten the power of this extraordinary portrait.

    I would stipulate emphatically that Trump is not Hitler and the American Republic is not Weimar… Nonetheless there are sufficient areas of similarity in some regards to make the book chilling and insightful reading about not just the past but also the present… If we can still effectively protect American democracy from dictatorship, then certainly one lesson from the study of the demise of Weimar and the ascent of Hitler is how important it is to do it early

    About Volker Ullrich

    Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose

    Volker Ullrich

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    • Hitler (Ullrich books)

    2-volume book collection by Volker Ullrich

    Hitler is a collection of two volumes by Volker Ullrich. Jefferson Chase translated both volumes into English.

    The books were originally published in German by S. Fischer Verlag. The first volume Hitler: Ascent, (German: Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs ), published in German in , was published in English in by The Bodley Head and covers up to

    The second volume Hitler Vol II: Downfall (German: Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Untergangs ) was published in English in by the same English publisher and covers the remainder of his biography.

    Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times wrote that Volume I "offers a fascinating Shakespearean parable" regarding Adolf Hitler's rise to power and highlights how Hitler advanced his political career through "demagoguery, showmanship and nativist appeals to the masses." She stated that "there is little here that is substantially new".

    Background

    The Bodley Head bought the English publishing rights in

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    Miranda Seymour of The Daily Telegraph stated that the author's portrayal of Hitler was "Janus-faced: an iron leader riddled with pitiful insecurity; a killer driven by the terror of personal oblivion."

    Reception

    The book became a bestseller in Germany upon its publication.

    Seymour gave the first volume five stars out of five. She described it as, "A superb biography". She credited "Ullrich’s refusal to buy into the idea – assiduously fostered by the Führer himself – that Hitler was invulnerable."

    Simon Heffer, also of the Telegraph, gave the second volume four of five stars, praising its use of newly available historical material and concluding that it "is one of the mos

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