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Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Hardcover)
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Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Hardcover)
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Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the
mental 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 such obvious murderous
implications.
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