HITLER PA (HANFSTAENGL)

by HANFSTAENGL,ERNST

• ISBN13: 9781611450552
• ISBN10: 1611450551
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-08-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler's fanatical theories and ideas hardened, however, he surrounded himself with rabid extremists such as Goering, Hess, and Goebbels, and Hanfstaengl became estranged from him. But with the Nazi's major unexpected political triumph in 1930, Hitler became a national figure, and he invited Hanfstaengl to be his foreign press secretary. It is from this unique insider's position that the author provides a vivid, intimate view of Hitler'”with his neuroses, repressions, and growing megalomania'”over the next several years. In 1937, four years after Hitler came to power, relations between Hanfstaengl and the Nazis had deteriorated to such a degree that he was forced to flee for his life, escaping to Switzerland. Here is a portrait of Hitler as you've rarely seen him.

Author Biography

Ernst Hanfestaengl was born in 1887 to German and American parents. He was educated, at Harvard, but eventually moved to Germany, where he met a young Hitler at the very beginning of his political rise. After turning down Hitler's invitation to become his foreign press secretary he returned to the United States, where he worked with the American government against the Nazi regime. He died in 1975. John Willard Toland was an American author and historian best known for his Adolph Hitler: The Definitive Biography and The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of. the Japanese Empire 1936-1945, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 2004.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
Foreword to the Original edition	p. 9
Introduction to the Original Edition	p. 11
Letter to the Author From Hermann Goering	p. 17
Harvard's Gift to Hitler	p. 21
The dozen years that made Hitler
My schooldays with Himmler's father
Sedgwick, Heine and Hanfstaengl forbears
Harvard and Theodore Roosevelt
Conflict on Fifth Avenue
The predictions of a German Jew
The American military attaché speaks of Hitler
Introduction to an agitator.
Tristan in the Thierschstrasse	p. 38
Sugar in the wine
Rosenberg
The infantryman's guide
Fitting Hitler for society
The Stammitsch at the Café Neumaier
Cranks and intimates
The basic reading of a dictator
Wagner on an upright piano
From Falarah to Sieg Heil
A woman's reaction
A pamphlet becomes a newspaper.
One Side to a Statue	p. 55
Begging expeditions
Hitler escapes a Communist patrol
From bombs to women boxers
Hitler's fixation with Leda and the Swan
His faux pas as an art expert
Diamonds and a fedora hat
The plans for Czechoslovakia
Hitler's gifts as a mimic -Poison on his birthday
Orator in excelsis
Goering, Hess and Haushofer.
Particular Generals	p. 75
Ferment in Bavaria
Hitler and Roehm
Pyro-mania in the Rhineland-Jewish anti-Semites -Dietrich Eckart loses faith- Rhinoceros whips in the courtyard
Rosenberg insults the Catholics
An offer from Mathilde Ludendorff- Hitler tempts General von Seeckt
Compromising reluctant allies.
Fiasco at the Feldherrnhalle	p. 91
Plan for a Putsch
Cracks in the Kamp found
Double-cross at the Bürgerbräu
Kahrfreitag
Red wine for Ludendorff- Fusillade in the Residenz-strasse
My escape to Austria
Hitler's attempted suicide.
Twilight at Landsberg	p. 110
Goering in exile-A first sight of Geli Raubal-Hitler's hunger strike
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