An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
63. Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 1
June 14, 2021
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Books Referenced
Author: Alan Bullock
Context:
Ian Kershaw mentions rereading Bullock's biography of Hitler when deciding whether to write his own biography. Referenced as 'reread Bullock.'
Author: Joachim Fest
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Ian Kershaw mentions rereading 'the leading German biography of Hitler by Joachim Fest' when considering writing his own Hitler biography.
Author: Adolf Hitler
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Referenced multiple times in discussion of Hitler's ideology and development. Kershaw discusses what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf about his realization he could speak, and about figures he admired like Georg Schoenner and Karl Lueger.
Author: Ian Kershaw
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Ian Kershaw mentions his own earlier book when discussing Hitler's belief in his own infallibility, particularly around the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Context:
Dominic mentions that Hitler 'read Thomas Carlyle, or he had Thomas Carlyle's book on Frederick the Great' when discussing Hitler's sense of himself as a great man.