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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (Hardcover)
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (Hardcover)
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The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar
with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then
expanded upon in Mein Kampf. It tells of his rapid emergence as
National Socialist leader in 1919, and of how he successfully
rallied most of Munich and the majority of Bavaria's establishment
to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923. It is an account
which has largely been taken at face value for over ninety years.
Yet, on closer examination, Hitler's account of his experiences in
the years immediately following the First World War turns out to be
every bit as unreliable as his account of his experiences as a
soldier during the war itself. In Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber
continues from where he left off in his previous book, Hitler's
First War, stripping away the layers of myth and fabrication in
Hitler's own tale to tell the real story of Hitler's politicization
and radicalization in post-First World War Munich. It is the
gripping account of how an awkward and unemployed loner with
virtually no recognizable leadership qualities and fluctuating
political ideas turned into the charismatic, self-assured,
virulently anti-Semitic leader with an all-or-nothing approach to
politics with whom the world was soon to become tragically
familiar. As Weber clearly shows, far from the picture of a
fully-formed political leader which Hitler wanted to portray in
Mein Kampf, his ideas and priorities were still very uncertain and
largely undefined in early 1919 - and they continued to shift until
1923. It was the failed Ludendorff putsch of November 1923 - and
the subsequent Ludendorff trial - which was to prove the making of
Hitler. And he was not slow to spot the opportunity that it
offered. As the movers and shakers of Munich's political scene
tried to blame everything on him in the course of the trial, Hitler
was presented with a golden opportunity to place himself at the
centre of attention, turning what had been the 'Ludendorff trial'
into the 'Hitler trial'. Henceforth, he would no longer be merely a
local Bavarian political leader. From now on, he would present
himself as a potential 'national saviour'. In the months after the
trial, Hitler cemented this myth by writing Mein Kampf from his
comfortable prison cell. His years of metamorphosis were now behind
him. His years as Fuhrer were soon to come.
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