Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber
Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber
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Becoming Hitler
The Making of a Nazi

Author: Thomas Weber

Narrator: Alex Hyde-White

Unabridged: 14 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 11/07/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader

In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred.

In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Francesc on February 04, 2021

Maravilloso ensayo sobre la transformación de un simple soldado de la retaguardia alemana durante la Primera Guerra Mundial en el líder de una nación que llevó al mundo a un límite sin retorno durante el siglo XX. No esperéis batallas ni historias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en esta obra, sino más b......more

Goodreads review by Erik on November 15, 2017

This book reviews Adolf Hitler's ideological development and political machinations from the time of the end of WWI in 1918 until the publication of the second volume of Mein Kampf in 1926, revealing that Hitler's own account of his life to that point was substantially fabricated. Instead, therefore......more

Goodreads review by Scott on January 17, 2018

(Audiobook) When mentioning Hitler, you tend to conjure images of arguably the greatest villain of the modern era. In many respects, that is true. Hitler eventually evolved into the anti-semantic, racist hard-right leader of the National Socialist Party, which drove the world into the most devastati......more

Goodreads review by Marcelo on April 12, 2025

Um interessante (e temporalmente apropriado) mergulho na formação de um extremista. Recheado de fontes e muito bem argumentado, o livro recorta um período da trajetória de Hitler para explorar como este se tornou a figura conhecida, na Munique de entre 1918, logo após a guerra, e 1924, durante sua p......more

Goodreads review by Nayeli on June 25, 2021

Solo llega hasta 1926 3.8 ⭐️......more