Biography of adolf hitler research paper

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2, –, Hitler: Downfall – by Volker Ullrich translated by Jefferson Chase (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ), pages Reviewed by Stephen G.

Fritz Professor of History, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Adolf Hitler is such a familiar figure that a new biography would appear to require either previously unknown information or a new interpretation. Volker Ullrich offers neither, but nonetheless has written a book very much worth reading.

Although Ullrich acknowledges the importance of the willing assistance of military leaders, state bureaucracies, and broad segments of the German public in the realization of Hitler’s radical goals, as in his earlier volume (Hitler: Ascent, ) he relies on extensive research into the papers of major protagonists of the Third Reich, published primary sources, and recent secondary works in order to refocus attention on the person of Hitler himself.

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