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The governor of Landsberg Prison noted at the time that "he [Hitler] hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial." [4] [5] After slow initial sales, the book became a bestseller in Germany following Hitler's rise to power in 1933. [6]
Mein Kampf, Hitler's first book. This bibliography of Adolf Hitler is a list of some non-fiction texts in English written about and by him.. Thousands of books and other texts have been written about him, so this is far from an all-inclusive list: Writing in 2006, Ben Novak, an historian who specializes in Hitler studies, estimated that in 1975 there were more than 50,000 books and scholarly ...
The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin (German: Das Buch Hitler) is the 2005 publication of a long-secret Soviet report on the life of Adolf Hitler written at the behest of Joseph Stalin. It was edited and translated into German by Matthias Uhl and Henrik Eberle.
Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's Secret Book. New York: Bramhall House, 1986. Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's Table Talks, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations. Translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens. New York: Enigma Books, 2000. Hitler, Adolf. Hitlers Zweites Buch: Ein Dokument aus dem Jahre 1928. With a preface and commentary by Gerhard L. Weinberg ...
The gift from Göring is among a little-known collection of about 100 books that were owned by Hitler, an avid reader with thousands of books, and are now possessed by the research library.
Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; his father, Alois Hitler, was a free-thinker and skeptical of the Catholic Church. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz , Austria , where the family lived. [ 8 ]
The last political testament was signed at the same time as Hitler's last will, 04:00 on 29 April 1945. [3] It was in two parts. The first part of the testament talked of his motivations in the three decades since volunteering in World War I, repeated his claim that neither he "nor anyone else in Germany wanted the war in 1939," stated his reasons for his intention to commit suicide, and ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.