1st Edition

An Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth" Image and Reality in the Third Reich

By Helen Roche Copyright 2017
96 Pages
by Macat Library

96 Pages
by Macat Library

Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people – many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism – and the Nazi state. It took Ian Kershaw – author of the standard two-volume biography of Hitler – to provide a truly convincing solution to this problem. Kershaw's... Read more

Ways in to the Text 

Who was Ian Kershaw? 

What does The "Hitler Myth" Say?  

Why does The "Hitler Myth Matter? 

Section 1: Influences  

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  

Module 2: Academic Context  

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution  

Section 2: Ideas  

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses  

Module 10: The Evolving Debate  

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  

Module 12: Where Next?  

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text  

Works Cited

Biography

Dr Helen Roche teaches History at the University of Cambridge, where her work focuses on education and the uses of classicism in Nazi Germany. Her second monograph, The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.