The Hidden Hitler
Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Lothar Machtan |
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| Original title | Hitlers Geheimnis: Das Doppelleben Eines Diktators |
| Translator | John Brownjohn |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Sexuality of Adolf Hitler |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
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Publication date
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2001 |
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Published in English
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2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 434 pp |
| ISBN | |
| 943.086/092 B | |
| LC Class | DD247.H5 M235 2001 |
The Hidden Hitler (German: Hitlers Geheimnis. Das Doppelleben eines Diktators; the title translates literally as "Hitler's Secret: The Double Life of a Dictator") is a 2001 book by German professor and historian Lothar Machtan. The German original was published by Alexander Fest Verlag, while the English-translated version was published by Basic Books in New York City. ()
The book discusses Adolf Hitler's sexuality. Machtan argues that Hitler was a closeted homosexual. Among the evidence, he cites the allegedly homoerotic nature of his friendship with August Kubizek during Hitler's youth in Vienna.
The question of Hitler's homosexuality is also raised in Walter C. Langer's work The Mind of Adolf Hitler and in Waite's psychoanalytic history The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. However, most scholars dismiss these claims and believe Hitler was heterosexual.
The New York Times Book Review (12/16/01) - "... But the biggest problem with Machtan's book (which has been translated by John Brownjohn) isn't the reliability of his sources but his mode of argumentation. He accepts what fits his thesis and rejects what doesn't. One feels, at times, that one is reading an internal F.B.I. report from the J. Edgar Hoover era rather than an evenhanded work of scholarship in which the author is ready to be led by the facts. To interpret evidence his way, Machtan employs innuendo and insinuation ..."
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