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Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss

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Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss

At the age of 24, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths --- certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees’s social, psychological and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans.

Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss
by Laurence Rees

  • Publication Date: January 28, 2014
  • Genres: History, Holocaust, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN-10: 0307389588
  • ISBN-13: 9780307389589