Adolf Hitler

The failure to dominate the East was what doomed Hitler’s empire; but the myth of Lebensraum is what made him what he was. It was also his solution to the conundrum of a nationalist empire: the racist elevation of one nation so far above all others that mass extermination seems obviously permissible. --Timothy Snyder, Nazism's dialectic of death, The Times Literary Supplement, August 13, 2008, review of Hitler's Empire: Nazi rule in Occupied Europe, by Mark Mazower (via Arts & Letters Daily)


On the recommended works by this author:

Review by Lila Azam Zanganeh of 'Mein Kampf': The Italian Edition, New York Times, November 7, 2004


On this author:

he adhered unswervingly, from the end of World War I until his final days in the Berlin bunker, to nationalism and radical anti-Semitism. In short, Hitler’s brooding over texts seems far more likely to have confirmed rather than created his virulent hatreds. --Jacob Heilbrunn, The Reader, The New York Times, January 2, 2009, review of Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, by Timothy W. Ryback

Hitler never imagined Germany as one sovereign state among others, but rather as the center of an empire, extending across Europe and including the resource-rich colonies of central Africa. The heart of this empire was the territory on Germany’s eastern frontier; some would be annexed to the Reich, the rest settled by German colonists, its Slavic population enslaved, its Jews and other inferior races exterminated. --James J. Sheehan, Lebensraum, The New York Times, September 19, 2008, review of Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, by Mark Mazower

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Will Smith, Hitler, and the perils of benevolence by Roger Kimball, Roger's Rules, December 25, 2007 7:28 AM

Extreme entities by Philip Marchand, Toronto Star, March 17, 2007
(via Milt's File)

Honoring Adolf by Khue Pham, Spiegel, March 16, 2007

Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship by Per Hinrichs, Spiegel, March 12, 2007

Hitler and Stalin together, review by Jane Caplan of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, by Richard Overy, Times Literary Supplement, October 21, 2004

The Terrible Beauty of Nazi Aesthetics: Acknowledging the Role of Art in a Spectacular Act of Barbarism, review by James Young of Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, by Frederic Spotts, Forward, April 25, 2003

A question of upbringing, review by Philip Hensher of Hitler and Churchill, by Andrew Roberts, The Spectator, February 8, 2003

Historian sketches portrait of Hitler the artist gone mad, review by Jules Wagman of Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, by Frederic Spotts, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 5, 2003

The Meaning of Hitler, review by Walter Sundberg of Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis, by Ian Kershaw, First Things, March 2001

Portrait of Der Führer as a Young Man: Filmmaker Menno Meyjes Defends 'Max,' the Film That Spielberg Wouldn't Make, by Max Gross, Forward, December 20, 2002

The fantasies of a failure, by Rupert Christiansen, Spectator, 28 September 2002

The Fine Art of Genocide? by Lee Rosenbaum, Opinion Journal, August 15, 2002

Hitler as Artist: How Vienna inspired the Fuhrer's Dreams, by Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, August 19 and 26, 2002

Hating Hitler, by Walter Sundberg, First Things, February 1999


On other works by this author:

Hitler's Further Thoughts, in a New English Translation, review by Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, June 17, 2003