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Adolf Hitler
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Kershaw - key historian
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“His excellent memory enabled him to recall information on many subjects. This impressed not only those around him and others who were already susceptible to his message.”
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“They aimed to show Hitler as a man of the people and, at the same time, the political philosopher of genius in lofty isolation, among the mountains that surrounded his Alpine retreat near the town of Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, as he pondered Germany’s future and bore the entire burden of responsibility on his shoulders" - Kershaw
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died by suicide in a Berlin bunker, age 56, on 30 April 1945
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he was very fond of his mother, who died in 1907, when he was 18 years old
Hitler first emerged on the political scene in the German city of Munich in late 1919 as a speaker for the right-wing German Workers’ Party (DAP)
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“Hitler was offering national redemption, a ‘new Germany’, a ‘new man’, a ‘new Jerusalem’” - Moorhouse
“Hitler believed that the Weimar Republic, which succeeded the Kaiser’s Germany, was a Jewish creation, and democracy was something Jewish. These were all complete fantasies. But the effect of the First World War was decisive, including on Hitler’s anti-Semitism and his belief the Jews were to blame for everything bad that had happened.”
Richard J Evans