Synopsis
This biographical study of Adolph Hitler probes into his psychology and his personal life and contains the "news" that Hitler may have been homosexual. Author Lothar Machtan investigates what he sees as the homosexual milieu in which the young Hitler traveled, and he gives names of likely male intimates. Machtan sees this aspect of Hitler's personality as an essential piece in understanding Hitler the man and, as well, the rise of Naziism. Hitler took great pains to conceal his preferences, and the tragic fate of homosexuals under Hitler is a matter of historical record.
Size
Length: 434 pages
Height: 9.5 in.
Width: 6.5 in.
Thickness: 1.2 in.
Weight: 28.0 oz.
Publisher's Note
Explores the life of Adolf Hitler, focusing on the homosexual influences that surrounded his life during his years in Vienna and Munich and as the FFuhrer, and examines his relationships with his male friends and supporters.
Industry reviews
"But the circumstantial evidence Machtan offers is just that--circumstantial. And the hard evidence seems far less reliable than he would have us believe. ..But the biggest problem with Machtan's book (which has been translated by John Brownjohn) isn't the reliability of his sources but his mode of argumentation. He accepts what fits his thesis and rejects what doesn't. One feels, at times, that one is reading an internal F.B.I. report from the J. Edgar Hoover era rather than an evenhanded work of scholarship in which the author is ready to be led by the facts....Though Machtan doesn't succeed in proving that Hitler was an active homosexual, he does demonstrate that his life, in both the personal and the political spheres, was suffused with homosexual themes and personalities. In some odd way, this may actually serve to humanize Hitler. But it doesn't serve to explain him."
New York Times Book Review - Walter Reich (12/16/2001)
Has mark on bottom but otherwise. Like new condition
This biographical study of Adolph Hitler probes into his psychology and his personal life and contains the "news" that Hitler may have been homosexual. Author Lothar Machtan investigates what he sees as the homosexual milieu in which the young Hitler traveled, and he gives names of likely male intimates. Machtan sees this aspect of Hitler's personality as an essential piece in understanding Hitler the man and, as well, the rise of Naziism. Hitler took great pains to conceal his preferences, and the tragic fate of homosexuals under Hitler is a matter of historical record.
Size
Length: 434 pages
Height: 9.5 in.
Width: 6.5 in.
Thickness: 1.2 in.
Weight: 28.0 oz.
Publisher's Note
Explores the life of Adolf Hitler, focusing on the homosexual influences that surrounded his life during his years in Vienna and Munich and as the FFuhrer, and examines his relationships with his male friends and supporters.
Industry reviews
"But the circumstantial evidence Machtan offers is just that--circumstantial. And the hard evidence seems far less reliable than he would have us believe. ..But the biggest problem with Machtan's book (which has been translated by John Brownjohn) isn't the reliability of his sources but his mode of argumentation. He accepts what fits his thesis and rejects what doesn't. One feels, at times, that one is reading an internal F.B.I. report from the J. Edgar Hoover era rather than an evenhanded work of scholarship in which the author is ready to be led by the facts....Though Machtan doesn't succeed in proving that Hitler was an active homosexual, he does demonstrate that his life, in both the personal and the political spheres, was suffused with homosexual themes and personalities. In some odd way, this may actually serve to humanize Hitler. But it doesn't serve to explain him."
New York Times Book Review - Walter Reich (12/16/2001)
Has mark on bottom but otherwise. Like new condition
00533
Payment Methods
Shipping
$6.00
Please Login or Register first before asking a question.
