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Heinz Peter Longerich (born 1955) is a German professor of history and historian. He is regarded by Ian Kershaw , Richard Evans , Timothy Snyder , Mark Roseman and Richard Overy , as one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust .
Goebbels: A Biography is a 2015 book by Peter Longerich. The book presents an account and analysis of the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, with extensive material from his diary which he kept from 1923 to 1945. It is an English translation of the 2010 German book Goebbels: Biographie by Longerich. [1] [2]
Mein Kampf, Hitler's first book. This bibliography of Adolf Hitler is a list of some non-fiction texts in English written about and by him.. Thousands of books and other texts have been written about him, so this is far from an all-inclusive list: Writing in 2006, Ben Novak, an historian who specializes in Hitler studies, estimated that in 1975 there were more than 50,000 books and scholarly ...
Goebbels began to keep a diary in October 1923, shortly before his 26th birthday, while unemployed and living in his parents' home at Rheydt in the Lower Rhine region. He had been given a diary as a present by Else Janke, a young woman (of part-Jewish background) with whom he had a turbulent and eventually unsuccessful relationship, and most of his early entries were about her.
Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's Secret Book. New York: Bramhall House, 1986. Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's Table Talks, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations. Translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens. New York: Enigma Books, 2000. Hitler, Adolf. Hitlers Zweites Buch: Ein Dokument aus dem Jahre 1928. With a preface and commentary by Gerhard L. Weinberg ...
In his 2015 biography, Peter Longerich pointed out how Hitler implemented his political goals as a strong dictator, with assertiveness, high readiness to assume risk and unlimited power. [12] Some authors were fundamentally opposed to any attempt to explain Hitler, for example by psychological means. [13]
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
In his book Hitler, A Life, the historian Peter Longerich confirms that "Indeed, there is hardly any reliable evidence about Hitler's life for the period 1910 to 1913." [10] The opening sentence of Chapter 4 of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf states: "In the spring of 1912 I came at last to Munich". [11] ("Im Frühjahr 1912 kam ich endgültig ...