Hitler's Vienna

A Dictator's Apprenticeship

Bibliographic Data

ID9820171
AuthorsStanley Hoffmann (corresponding author), Brigitte Hamann
Year1999
Volume78
Issue5
Pages172
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20049484
OpenAlexW1602557093
LanguageEN
Citations received24

Hitler's Vienna is the authoritative biography of Adolf Hitler's early life up to his departure from Austria as a 24-year-old. It is also the cultural and political history of Vienna as Hitler encountered it during his critical formative years: the Vienna of immigrants, the unemployed, and the homeless, and also of German Nationalism and antisemitism. Brigitte Hamann examines critically for the first time the few accounts of eyewitnesses and the many legends of Hitler's early years, bringing to light, for example, newly discovered letters and facts about his close contact with Jewish friends and benefactors. She also analyses the influence of the politicians who determined Hitler's political path. No one has produced such an extensive and well-founded picture of the climate and milieu in which Hitler's character was shaped. Hitler's Vienna demonstrates, using a wealth of individual examples, that central elements in Hitler's world-view were acquired during his Vienna years

Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Dictator · Economic history · Economics · Political science · Politics · European history and politics · German History and Society · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law

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