Young Hitler
Hardcover, 2010 edition
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| Author |
Claus Hant with James Trivers, Alan Roche |
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| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Published | 2010 |
| Publisher | Quartet Books |
| Pages | 440 |
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| OCLC | 461280423 |
Young Hitler is a fact based narrative ("non-fiction novel") that covers the time between Hitler’s 16th and 30th year of age. The second part of the book is factual. It was written in English by German writer Claus Hant. Writers James Trivers and Alan Roche assisted Hant in producing the original English version of the book. Young Hitler was published in 2010 by Quartet Books, London.
The book is divided into two sections: in the first part, a narrative retells the formative years of the young Adolf Hitler between 1907 and 1918, when he lived as a starving artist on the streets and in the asylums of Vienna, and then joined World War I as a volunteer on the Western Front. When the war ends, Hitler comes into contact with members of the Thule Society in Munich, an association of occultists who had launched a political party, the German Workers Party (DAP).The narration ends in 1920 when Hitler takes over the DAP and turns it into the Nazi Party (NSDAP). In an interview with The Guardian, author Claus Hant explained that the events after 1920 are exhaustively documented in the numerous Hitler biographies. But what the biographies do not investigate is the time before then, when Hitler was transformed from inconsequential artist and drifter to towering political leader. Hant says that he has centered Young Hitler deliberately around this momentous transformation. According to Hant, this decisive turning point in Hitler’s life can only be explained satisfactorily now that recent research has unearthed certain previously unknown data and facts.
The second part of the book is purely non-fiction. It contains detailed appendices with many little-known facts about Hitler. Most importantly, the appendices substantiate Hant’s thesis which casts a surprising new light on the reasons behind Hitler’s rise to power.
Young Hitler focuses on the question that has plagued historians since the end World War II. How did Hitler do it? How did such a nonentity - a man with only a primary school certificate, no money and no helpful connections manage to turn the everyday life of one of the most important industrialized nations of its time inside out within just a few years?
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