Why did Hitler hate the Jews? : the origins of Adolf Hitler's anti-semitism and its outcome in 1941 Cover Image

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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? : the origins of Adolf Hitler's anti-semitism and its outcome in 1941

Hertog, Peter den 1951- (author.). Coleman, Lynn, (translator.).

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ISBN: 9781526772381
ISBN: 1526772388
Physical Description: print
ix, 191 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Publisher: Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2020.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The riddle -- The detective -- The nineteenth-century background: anti-semitic traditions -- The causes of paranoia: the proximate level of explanation -- Adolf Hitler, 1889-1914 -- Adolf Hitler and the First World War -- From Pasewalk to Lechfeld -- The method -- Hitler and paranoia -- The anti-semitic turnaround -- The lethal consequences of Hitler's paranoia -- Nature and paranoia: the deepest roots of paranoia -- Paranoia, morality and emotions -- Provisional incantation of fear and narcissism -- Other interpretations -- The Viennese interpretation -- More recent publications -- Freudian psychohistory -- More modern psychological research -- Evaluation and some new remarks -- Hitler's motives to kill the European Jews -- Was there a killing order? -- The killing order: three sources -- The killing order: when?