Hitler - Peter Longerich

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Résumé :
Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic F?hrer of millions of dedicated followers. In this major new biography, internationally acclaimed German historian Peter Longerich brings Hitler back to centre-stage in the history of Nazism, revealing a far more active and interventionist dictator than we are familiar with from recent accounts, with a flexibility of approach that often surprises. Whether it was foreign policy, war-making, terror, mass murder, cultural and religious affairs, or even mundane everyday matters, Longerich reveals how decisive a force Hitler was in the formulation of policy, sometimes right down to the smallest details, in a way which until now has not been fully appreciated. Consistently and ruthlessly destroying both the people and the power structures that stood in his way, Longerich shows how over time Hitler succeeded in forging his 'F?hrer dictatorship' - with terrifying and almost limitless power over the German people....

Biographie:
Peter Longerich is a former Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway University of London, and founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre. He has published widely on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including Holocaust: The Nazi Murder and Persecution of the Jews (2010) and Heinrich Himmler: A Life (2011), also published by Oxford University Press, and Goebbels (2015)....

Sommaire:

• Introduction
• Prologue: A Nobody
• Part One
• 1: Back in Munich
• 2: The Way to the Party
• 3: Hitler Takes the Lead
• 4: The March to the Hitler Coup
• 5: Process and Prohibition
• Part Two
• 6: A Political New Beginning
• 7: Hitler the Speaker
• 8: Reorientation
• 9: Conquest of the Masses
• 10: Strategy
• 11: At the Gates of Power
• Part Three
• 12: Seizure of Power
• 13: First Steps of Foreign Policy
• 14: F?hrer and People
• 15: Outbreak of the International System
• 16: Construction of the Sole Dictatorship
• Part Four
• 17: Domestic Crisis
• 18: First Foreign Policy Successes
• 19: The Way to the Nuremberg Laws
• 20: Foreign Policy Coup
• 21: Ready to Serve in Four Years
• 22: Church Struggle and Cultural Policy
• 23: Hitlers Regime
• Part Five
• 24: Foreign Policy Reorientation
• 25: From the Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis to the Connection
• 26: The Sudeten Crisis
• 27: To Munich
• 28: In the War
• Part Six
• 29: The War Begins
• 30: Resistors
• 31: War in the West
• 32: Exploring Foreign Policy
• 33: Extending the War
• 34: Operation Barbarossa
• 35: Escalation of Jewish Politics
• 36: Winter Crisis: 1941-42
• 37: At the Height of Power
• 38: Hitler's Empire
• Part Seven
• 39: War Change and Radicalization
• 40: With One's Back to the Wall
• 41: Before the Sinking
• 42: 20 July 1944
• 43: Refuge in Total War
• 44: The End