Adolf Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 | 
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never enough hours in the day. #nonfiction night with the tagged book, a little bookstagram, and then time for bed. good night, friends 🖤☕️
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Long but good bio of early years up to coming to power. Can be compared to a modern American who still influences people!
pickFirst volume (takes us up to 1939) of this superb biography. Thorough yet always readable. Highly recommended.
• This evening's #audiobook on the road. I am glad to get back to the tagged book; it's so riveting but of course it fills me with utter revulsion and deep sadness •
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• Intense belly bumps while reading tonight. Having my first cup of coffee in a long while; I never thought I'd be able to give it up! Baby seems to think I don't need it Lol and honestly, I think I might have fallen out of love with java 😲 I suppose stranger things have happened! •
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• In addition to being an evil, egomaniacal demon...Hitler was also a pathological liar. I thought I wanted to read "Mein Kampf" at some point but according to this book, MK has a lot more fiction than fact. Big surprise •
• Hitler's recollections of war; it's amazing (NOT in a good way) how many times he dodged being a casualty himself as a dispatch runner in the first world war 😳 History would have played out so differently if he'd been part of the battlefield sacrifice •
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“Hitler would often read until the early hours of the morning. Hitler‘s favourite reading material was Germanic myths and heroic sagas, closely followed by art and architectural histories. But he also read contemporary works such as the plays of Ibsen and Frank Wedekind‘s Spring Awakening.”
“Books, always books,” recalled Kubizek. “I can‘t picture Adolf without books. Books were his whole world.”
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“People have perennially speculated about how history might have turned out had Hitler passed that admissions test. Most likely not only his life story, but Germany‘s and the world‘s would have taken a different course.”
• Hard to imagine Hitler as a fine artist instead of a horrific dictator...and yet that could have been his destiny 😳 •
• There's no good time to start a doorstopper about Hitler but here I am...enjoying oatmeal/banana and coffee while reading about the German dictator. Did you know that Hitler appeared to love his mother very much and was actually a human being in his early years?! I'm being sarcastic; of course he was human--only humans are capable of such heinous moral atrocities as visited upon the world during his time in history •
• History‘s demon. The personification of pure evil. The most reviled person who ever lived. In other words, my next big historical, non-fiction read •
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• I can‘t imagine how fascinated and disgusted I will be after reading this. Hitler: one of history‘s most universally reviled characters and I want to read about him. I‘m not ashamed to admit that his extreme psychopathy (that‘s probably putting it too mildly) and utter horridness intrigues my curious mind. But then I‘ve always been curious about evil minds. Wish me luck, I‘m going in as soon as possible •
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Volume 1 has arrived. Weighing in at 750 pages of smallish text I have time before I buy volume 2.
pickWell that was terrifyingly depressingly powerful. Read but know what you're in for. Going after to read some kids books now.
Depressingly familiar #trumpedupreadinglist
dtrump ain't gonna usher fascism into this here united states like some reviews of this book seem to be suggestin' ...but he is a capitalist asshole
Wisdom tooth removal, two! So I'm in bed with this door stopper. I'm trying to rest today, but that's so hard for me to do...trying...trying. --- This is a really detailed biography of Hitler's youth and how is ideas formed and turned monstrous. I'm learning a lot, mostly everything since I know very little of him.
This is much more than a biography --the book is a very detailed analysis of the growth and development of National Socislism, and a harrowing history of exactly what happened to Germany, and how it happened, when the NSDAP seized power. Copious references to all the primary and secondary sources, of great value to anyone who wants to learn more about the era. Disturbing read, without question, but deeply illuminating.
pickcurrently about halfway done with this very interesting and well-written bio of this monster of a hunan being.
