Hitler and America

preview-18
  • Hitler and America Book Detail

  • Author : Klaus P. Fischer
  • Release Date : 2011-05-26
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 13 : 0812204417
  • File Size : 55,55 MB

Hitler and America by Klaus P. Fischer PDF Summary

Book Description: In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production—especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of transportation, particularly the automobile. He loved automobiles and saw in Henry Ford a great hero of the industrial age. Hitler's personal train was even code-named "Amerika." In Hitler and America, historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America: America and Amerika. Hitler would loudly call the United States a feeble country while at the same time referring to it as an industrial colossus worthy of imitation. Or he would belittle America in the vilest terms while at the same time looking at the latest photos from the United States, watching American films, and amusing himself with Mickey Mouse cartoons. America was a place that Hitler admired—for the can-do spirit of the American people, which he attributed to their Nordic blood—and envied—for its enormous territorial size, abundant resources, and political power. Amerika, however, was to Hitler a mongrel nation, grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews. Across the Atlantic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own, far more realistically grounded views of Hitler. Fischer contrasts these with the misconceptions and misunderstandings that caused Hitler, in the end, to see only Amerika, not America, and led to his defeat.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Hitler and America books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Hitler and America

Hitler and America

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 5302 Views
DOWNLOAD

In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted th

America in White, Black, and Gray

America in White, Black, and Gray

File Size : 36,36 MB
Total View : 7015 Views
DOWNLOAD

Numerous studies on various aspects of the issues of the 1960s have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 6817 Views
DOWNLOAD

Nazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and militar

History of an Obsession

History of an Obsession

File Size : 89,89 MB
Total View : 6727 Views
DOWNLOAD

Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and

Animals in the Third Reich

Animals in the Third Reich

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 5459 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This is the first book to explore the paradox of the Nazi cult of animals and the obsession with the annhilation of "biologically inferior" people." "Animals i