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Adolf Hitler by John Toland5/12/2023 But what makes Adolf Hitler particularly valuable is the book’s tone: utterly dispassionate, and free of judgment. Events are related in adequate detail, and mostly chronologically – a monumental feat in itself, given that the roots of most of the trends and events during the Third Reich are decades or centuries deep. In that respect, too, the book successfully grounds and orients a reader unacquainted with this epoch. It functions also, necessarily, as a chronology of events during Hitler’s lifetime. As a biography it is comprehensive and accessible. ‘The greatest saints,’ observes one of Graham Greene’s characters, ‘Have been men with a more than normal capacity for evil, and the most vicious men have sometimes narrowly evaded sanctity.’ Deprived of heaven, Adolf Hitler chose hell – if, indeed, he knew the difference between the two.”Īmerican writer John Toland’s 1976 biography of Adolf Hitler is the second book I’ve read about the Nazis/Third Reich (the first being Mein Kampf). “My book has no thesis, and any conclusions to be found in it were reached only during the writing, perhaps the most meaningful being that Hitler was far more complex and contradictory than I had imagined. Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email
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