Hitler, what's up? There are so many books on Hitler and National Socialism that you get confused. As if this evil man was decidedly inexhaustible. In this new sum called
Hitler. The world, if not nothing
, the specialist in international relations Brendan Simms does not offer a new discovery concerning the life of Hitler, but he claims to shed new light on his trajectory. For him, and unlike the German historian Ernst Nolte, the origin of Hitlerism should not be sought in the East. For Nolte, as we know, it was the fear engendered by Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution which produced Nazism in reaction, a German fascism whose vocation was above all to fight Marxism and "
Judeo-Bolshevism.
".
Simms, who insists on World War I in training the young Hitler, turns the perspective around.
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Like Thomas Weber, who recently published a brilliant biography of the Führer
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Becoming Hitler. La fabrique
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