Adolf Hitler

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Will Smith, Hitler, and the perils of benevolence by Roger Kimball, Roger's Rules, December 25, 2007 7:28 AM

Extreme entities by Philip Marchand, Toronto Star, March 17, 2007
(via Milt's File)

Honoring Adolf by Khue Pham, Spiegel, March 16, 2007

Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship by Per Hinrichs, Spiegel, March 12, 2007

Review by Lila Azam Zanganeh of 'Mein Kampf': The Italian Edition, New York Times, November 7, 2004

Hitler and Stalin together, review by Jane Caplan of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, by Richard Overy, Times Literary Supplement, October 21, 2004

Hitler's Further Thoughts, in a New English Translation, review by Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, June 17, 2003

The Terrible Beauty of Nazi Aesthetics: Acknowledging the Role of Art in a Spectacular Act of Barbarism, review by James Young of Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, by Frederic Spotts, Forward, April 25, 2003

A question of upbringing, review by Philip Hensher of Hitler and Churchill, by Andrew Roberts, The Spectator, February 8, 2003

Historian sketches portrait of Hitler the artist gone mad, review by Jules Wagman of Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, by Frederic Spotts, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 5, 2003

The Meaning of Hitler, review by Walter Sundberg of Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis, by Ian Kershaw, First Things, March 2001

Portrait of Der Führer as a Young Man: Filmmaker Menno Meyjes Defends 'Max,' the Film That Spielberg Wouldn't Make, by Max Gross, Forward, December 20, 2002

The fantasies of a failure, by Rupert Christiansen, Spectator, 28 September 2002

The Fine Art of Genocide? by Lee Rosenbaum, Opinion Journal, August 15, 2002

Hitler as Artist: How Vienna inspired the Fuhrer's Dreams, by Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, August 19 and 26, 2002

Hating Hitler, by Walter Sundberg, First Things, February 1999