A Certain Hitler

A Certain Hitler: The Politics of Crime (St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House, 2018). Translated by Nikita Yeliseev.

The presentation of a book by German historian Sebastian Hafner (1907-1999). It is an analytical commentary on his best-selling book The History of a German (1939), written forty years later. And today, another 40 years later, this clear, profound study of the phenomenon of a political monster has all qualities of the proverbial "must read."

Understanding how and why this “certain someone,” a man straight from the masses, could become a popular politician and lead a crowd to crime acquires special value in our era, which provides boundless technological possibilities for turning personal psychoses into mass psychoses.

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