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Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Paperback)
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Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Paperback)
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Parsing Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the world of
an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich,
developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War
and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National
Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodge-podge of
ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933,
colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however
briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world. How did he
discover that ideology? How was it that cohorts of leaders,
followers, and ordinary citizens adopted aspects of National
Socialism without experiencing the "leader" first-hand or reading
his works? They shared a collective desire to create a harmonious,
racially select, "community of the people" to build on Germany's
socialist-oriented political culture and to seek national renewal.
If we wish to understand the rise of the Nazi Party and the new
dictatorship's remarkable staying power, we have to take the
nationalist and socialist aspects of this ideology seriously.
Hitler became a kind of representative figure for ideas, emotions,
and aims that he shared with thousands, and eventually millions, of
true believers who were of like mind.They projected onto him the
properties of the "necessary leader," a commanding figure at the
head of a uniformed corps that would rally the masses and storm the
barricades. It remains remarkable that millions of people in a
well-educated and cultured nation eventually came to accept or
accommodate themselves to the tenants of an extremist ideology
laced with hatred and laden with murderous implications.
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