Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
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A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great RaceIn this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s constant companions throughout his life. They accompanied him from his years as a frontline corporal during the First World War to his final days before his suicide in Berlin. With remarkable attention to detail, Ryback examines the surviving volumes from Hitler’s private book collection, revealing the ideas and obsessions that occupied Hitler in his most private hours and the consequences they had for our world.A feat of scholarly detective work, and a captivating biographical portrait, Hitler’s Private Library is one of the most intimate and chilling works on Hitler yet written. The Washington Post - Michael Dirda …gripes aside, Hitler's Private Library is still fascinating—and unnerving. Hitler, Ryback shows us, remained a serious reader all his life, spending much of his disposable income on books during the 1920s and regularly passing quiet evenings in his library during the 1930s and '40s, no matter how dreadful the orders he'd been giving during the day. Of course, he was often studying—studying!—such ranting works as Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, and yet he also dreamt over volumes devoted to art and architecture, read his adventure novels and world classics. So the mystery remains: Just how does a man who appreciates Don Quixote, "Hamlet" and Uncle Tom's Cabin grow so monstrous?
Preface: The Man Who Burned Books1 Frontline Reading, 19152 The Mentor's Trade3 The Hitler Trilogy4 The Lost Philosopher5 Book Wars6 Divine Inspiration7 Frontline Reading, 19408 Hitler's History of the Second World War9 A Miracle DeferredAfterword: The Fate of BooksApp. A Description of Hitler's Library from This is the Enemy, by Frederick Oechsner, 1942App. B Description of the Berghof Book Collection from a Classified Report By the U.S. Army Twenty-First Counterintelligence Corps, May 1945App. C "The Libraty of a Dilettante: A Glimpse into the Private Library of Herr Hitler," by Hans Beillhack, Suddeutsch Zeitung, November 9, 1946
