Hitler's Berlin, Abused City

482 pages; b&w illustrations. The late author grew up and spent his adult life in Berlin where he was a museum curator. He was the project leader for history at the city's Museum Education Service. project From Hitler's first visit in 1917 to his desire to make Berlin the world capital, Germania, in the early 1940s. Clean and bright throughout.

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How Berlin captivated Hitler's imagination, and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural aspirations for the capital, and how Berlin surprisingly influenced the development of Hitler's political ideas.

A leading expert on the twentieth-century history of Berlin, Friedrich employs new and little-known German sources to track Hitler's attitudes and plans for the city. Even while he despised both the cosmopolitan culture of the Weimar Republic and the profound Jewish influence on the city, Hitler was drawn to the grandiosity of its architecture and its imperial spirit. He dreamed of transforming Berlin into a capital that would reflect his autocracy, and he used the city for such varied purposes as testing his anti-Semitic policies and demonstrating the might of the Third Reich. Illuminating Berlin's burdened years under Nazi subjection, Friedrich offers new understandings of Hitler and his politics, architectural views, and artistic opinions.

Product Info

ISBN: 0300219733

ISBN-13: 9780300219739

Publisher: Yale Un iversity Press

Year: 2016

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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