An Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The ""Hitler Myth"" by Helen Roche - 9781912302697

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An Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The \""Hitler Myth\""Image and Reality in the Third Reich\nAuthor(s): Helen Roche\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Macat International Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Macat International Limited\nISBN-13: 9781912302697, 978-1912302697\nSynopsis\nFew 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 model blends theory notably Max Weber's concept of charismatic leadership with new archival research into the development of the Hitler cult from its origins in the 1920s to its collapse in the face of the harsh realities of the latter stages of World War II. Kershaws model also looks at dictatorship from an unusual angle: not fr.