Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man

What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. For it was here, behind the glittering curtain of artistic creativity, liberalism and prosperity, that the architect of the Holocaust was born. As a failing, bitter and desperately poor artist, Hitler experienced only the dark underbelly of Vienna, which was seething with fear, racial prejudice, anti-semitism and conservatism. Drawing on previously untapped sources - from personal reminiscences to the records of shelters where Hitler slept - Hamann vividly recreates the dark side of fin de siecle Vienna and paints the fullest and most disturbing portrait of the young Hitler to date - the genesis of the most terrifying dictator the world has ever known.

Author: Brigitte Hamann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 482
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781848852778
ISBN10: 1848852770
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Europe | Austria & Hungary
- History | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author

Brigitte Hamann is an award-winning German historian based in Vienna. She is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed biographies, as well as a recipient of the Concordia Preis in recognition of her work.

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