Hitler and America, Klaus P. Fischer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 368 pp., hardcover, 29.95, e-book available
Most previous historiography has assumed Hitler's ignorance about America. Klaus Fischer's “fresh approach” offers “a more detailed and balanced account” (p. 7). According to Fischer, Hitler held a “split image” of the United States: on the one hand, he saw a colossus, a land of the future...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 159-161 |
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| Summary: | Most previous historiography has assumed Hitler's ignorance about America. Klaus Fischer's “fresh approach” offers “a more detailed and balanced account” (p. 7). According to Fischer, Hitler held a “split image” of the United States: on the one hand, he saw a colossus, a land of the future whose potential rested on a thriving industrial capacity and a creative Nordic population. On the other hand, Hitler also imagined a degenerate and materialistic Amerika, based on alleged Jewish control and racial “mongrelization. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct013 |