Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi / Thomas Weber.
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- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Homes and haunts -- Germany -- Munich
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Psychology
- Nazis -- Germany -- Biography
- Right-wing extremists -- Germany -- Biography
- Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography
- National socialism -- History
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader
In Becoming Hitler , award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred.
In Becoming Hitler , Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.
Prelude -- PART I: Genesis -- Coup d̕ État (20 November 1918-February 1919) -- A Cog in the Machine of Socialism (February to early April 1919) -- Arrested (early April to early May 1919) -- Turncoat (early May to mid to July 1919) -- PART II: New Testaments -- A New Home at Last (mid-July to September 1919) -- Two Visions (October 1919 to March 1920) -- A 2500 -Year - Old Tool (March-August 1920) -- Genius (August to December 1920) -- Hitler's Pivot to the East (December 1920 to July 1921) -- PART III: Messiah -- The Bavarian Mussolini (July 1921 to December 1922) -- The German Girl from New York (Winter 1923 to summer 1923) -- Hitler's First Book (summer 1923 to autumn 1923) -- The Ludendorff Putsch (autumn 1923 to spring 1924) -- Lebensraum (spring 1924 to1926) -- Epilogue -- Archival collections & private papers and interviews.
Examines Hitler's years in Munich after World War I and his radical transformation from a directionless loner into the leader of Munich's right-wing movement.