Volker Ullrich

Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Times Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Führer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the Führer. While charting in detail Hitler’s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Führer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile — and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichéd image of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.

Volume I: Ascent 1889–1939

Hitler

Die letzte Woche des Dritten Reiches

Acht Tage im Mai

Downfall 1939-45

Hitler : Volume II

The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

Eight Days in May

Das Jahr am Abgrund

Deutschland 1923

Adolf Hitler

Jefferson Chase

Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

Germany 1923

Otto von Bismarck

Napoleon.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A New York Times bestseller, this major new biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs. Volker Ullrich's Hitler, the first in a two-volume biography, has changed the way scholars and laypeople alike understand the man who has become the personification of evil. Drawing on previously unseen papers and new scholarly research, Ullrich charts Hitler's life from his childhood through his experiences in the First World War and his subsequent rise as a far-right leader. Focusing on the personality behind the policies, Ullrich creates a vivid portrait of a man and his megalomania, political skill, and horrifying worldview. Hitler is a landmark biography with unsettling resonance in these times.

1889-1939

Hitler: Ascent

1945. Otto giorni a maggio. Dalla morte di Hitler alla fine del Terzo Reich. L'ultima settimana della Seconda guerra mondiale

Otto von Bismarck (1815–98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessible biography, the real Bismarck was far more complicated than the stereotype. A leading historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, Ullrich demonstrates that the “Founder of the Reich” was in fact an opponent of liberal German nationalism. After the wars of 1866 and 1870, Bismarck spent the rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe and protect the empire he had created. Despite his reputation as an enemy of socialism, he introduced comprehensive health and unemployment insurance for German workers. Far from being a “man of iron and blood,” Bismarck was in fact a complex statesman who was concerned with maintaining stability and harmony far beyond Germany’s newly unified borders. Comprehensive and balanced, Bismarck shows us the post-reunification value of looking anew at this monumental figure’s role in European history.

Bismarck

Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the FÃ¼hrer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the FÃ¼hrer. While charting in detail Hitlerâe(tm)s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the FÃ¼hrer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile âe" and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichÃ©d image of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.

Ascent

Hitler - A Biography

Im Zentrum der neuen mehrbändigen Hitler-Biografie stehen aus bislang unbekanntem Archivmaterial und der jüngsten Literatur sorgfältig recherchierte Analysen von Hitlers Aufstieg, seiner Machtentfaltung, der Innen- und Außenpolitik in der Diktatur. Band 1 endet 1939 auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht.

Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs, 1889-1939

Alfred Hildebrandt

Ivar Roots

Microsomes and Drug Oxidations is a record of the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations, held in Berlin, Germany in July 1976. The compendium provides an overview of knowledge on the oxidative metabolism of drugs, carcinogens, and various other environmental chemicals. Topics discussed include lipid structure of liver microsomal membranes; interactions between cytochrome p-450 and nadphcytochrome p-450 reductase in the microsomal membrane; impact of drug monoxygenases in clinical pharmacology; and the manner in which oxygen participates in mixed-function oxidation reactions. Pharmacologists, toxicologists, biochemists, and researchers in the pharmaceutical industry will find the book highly insightful.

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Berlin, July 1976

Microsomes and Drug Oxidations

Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the FÃ1⁄4hrer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the FÃ1⁄4hrer. While charting in detail Hitlerâe(tm)s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the FÃ1⁄4hrer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile âe" and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichÃ©d image of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.

Ascent, 1889-1939

Russland und der Kaukasus

Die neue große Hitler-Biographie für unsere Zeit Wäre der größte Zivilisationsbruch in der Geschichte – der Vernichtungskrieg in Osteuropa und der Mord an den europäischen Juden – ohne Hitler denkbar gewesen? Mit souveräner Kennerschaft und auf der Basis neuer Quellen zeigt der Zeithistoriker Volker Ullrich, in welchem Ausmaß der Diktator den Charakter der Kriegführung und die Entwicklung zum Holocaust bestimmt hat. Deutlich wird: Die monströsen Verbrechen waren nur möglich, weil Hitler sich bis zuletzt auf die Kooperation der Generalität und breiter Teile der Gesellschaft verlassen konnte. In seiner meisterhaften Biographie gelingt es Volker Ullrich überzeugend, die Persönlichkeit Hitlers greifbar zu machen. Erst so wird erkennbar, wie all das geschehen konnte – und welchen Platz der Diktator in der Geschichte einnimmt. Eine glänzend geschriebene Darstellung auf dem letzten Stand der Forschung, die unser Bild von Hitler für lange Zeit maßgeblich prägen wird. Der viel beachtete erste Band behandelt die Jahre des Aufstiegs bis 1939. Der zweite Band zeichnet die Jahre des Untergangs nach – von der Entfesselung des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zum apokalyptischen Finale 1945.

Die Jahre des Untergangs 1939-1945 Biographie

Nell'estate del 1939 Adolf Hitler era all'apice della gloria. Attraverso un'aggressiva politica estera, aveva riportato la Germania allo status di grande potenza e sembrava destinato a realizzare i suoi progetti più ambiziosi. Ben pochi riuscirono a scorgere nella sua visione del mondo - improntata alla conquista dello «spazio vitale a est» e all'eliminazione degli ebrei dalla Germania e, se possibile, dall'Europa intera - i germi dei tragici sviluppi futuri. Eppure, con l'attacco all'Unione Sovietica nel giugno 1941 e l'ingresso in guerra degli Stati Uniti nello stesso anno, le sorti della Germania nazista iniziarono a cambiare. Volker Ullrich dedica questo secondo volume della sua imponente ricerca agli anni più terribili nella storia del Terzo Reich, quelli dominati dalla smania di conquista di un dittatore che, del tutto impreparato al compito di comandante e stratega, se ne arrogò le funzioni e pianificò le operazioni con i suoi generali, fino ai minimi dettagli. L'autore rivolge quindi particolare attenzione ai rapporti fra Hitler e l'élite della Wehrmacht, cercando di chiarire in quale misura lo stato maggiore fosse coinvolto nelle decisioni più rilevanti e quali iniziative intraprese per favorirle o, eventualmente, ostacolarle. È in quelle occasioni che i tratti chiave della personalità del Führer emergono con più evidenza. Hitler era un giocatore d'azzardo e al tempo stesso era profondamente insicuro; bastava la minima battuta d'arresto per turbarlo ed era pronto a incolpare i suoi subordinati per i propri errori catastrofici; e quando si rese conto che la guerra era persa, si imbarcò nell'annientamento della stessa Germania come punizione del popolo tedesco che non gli aveva consegnato la vittoria. L'opera di Ullrich offre dunque uno spaccato affascinante sulla personalità del Führer, sondando gli abissi del suo carattere, quei complessi, quelle ossessioni e quelle spinte omicide che erano all'origine dei suoi pensieri e delle sue azioni, poiché, senza un'opportuna messa a fuoco del ruolo nefasto che esercitò, né il corso della guerra né la via verso l'Olocausto troverebbero una descrizione e una spiegazione adeguate. È difficile pensare a una biografia definitiva di Hitler - l'argomento è troppo vasto, l'uomo troppo contraddittorio e le fonti ingovernabili - ma queste pagine si avvicinano quanto più possibile a tale traguardo.

Hitler. La caduta

Joachim Rohlfes

Rüdiger Hachtmann

wie wir wurden, was wir sind ; 19. Jahrhundert ; 1789 - 1918

Deutsche Geschichte

Volker Ullrich

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