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2nd edition published by Cooper Square Press, 2002. |
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1st edition published by Stein and Day, 1983. |
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In 1907 a young man, with a suitcase full of sketches and artistic dreams, came from a small provincial town to Vienna. Six years later this same young man, hardened by an alchemy of failure and disappointment, his dreams turned to nightmares, left that city, set on a path of hatred and revenge. Here is what happened in those six years to bring about such a total change in the life of that young man, and consequently in the history of the world.
Hitler in Vienna is a fascinating
portrait of a city that was spawning Hitler and, at the same time, the genius
of Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and many others. Many of the bright stars of
this cultural renaissance were Jewish. And this book shows how closely the two sides of
genius and malignancy were knit when it pictures a waning imperial society producing the
seminal intellectual revolution of the century and at the same time as it was planting
the seeds of the Holocaust.
Reviews
"An American had to come along to enrich the dimensions of Hitler literature with such a vigorous work...a remarkable book" ... Badisches Tagblatt
"thoroughly praiseworthy research"... Die Welt
"...massively important because we need to know as much as possible
about Hitler's formative years. This spirited and accurate account
deserves a wide readership"
. . . Robert Payne, author of The Life and Death of
Adolph Hitler
"Lively . . . perceptive" . . . Gordon Craig, The New York Review of Books
"Lucid, well-written . . . evokes nicely the atmosphere of the city"
. . .
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