Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi - Thomas Weber

Category: Adults, History, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Germany Nazi World War Two WW2

Written by Thomas Weber
Read by Alex Hyde-White
Format: M4A
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

An award-winning historian charts Hitler’s radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler’s time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany’s messiah. The story of Hitler’s transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city.After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich’s right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred.In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue.