In 2017, an Austrian woman entrusted a professor from the University of Linz with 31 letters addressed to her great-grandfather by Alois Hitler, the Führer's father.
These missives found allowed the historian, with other sources, to write a book (1).
This biography of Adolf Hitler's father aims to shed light on his childhood, showing how the character of the future dictator was shaped by his family.
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In fact, Alois Hitler was a violent, authoritarian and inflexible father, predispositions which could have influenced his son.
However, for an insignificant middle-class child to hate old Habsburg Austria, embrace the cause of pan-German racialism, lead a small German party, and then rise to power and set the world on fire, it will take a whole socio-historical process.
Hitler's Father.
How his son became a dictator
, by Roman Sandgruber, Tallandier, 400 p., €22.50.
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Countless publications have looked at the character of Hitler.
In a light format book, Claude Quétel, historian and former director of research at the CNRS…
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