Description
Title: Hitler’s Mistakes
Author: Lewin, Ronald
Condition: Very Good +
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0436245620
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 186 pages
Comments: Ronald Lewin was a historian of the first order, and this slim volume is a tight, focused, harsh, and accurate analysis of Nazi Germany’s and Hitler’s weaknesses that helped cause its downfall.
Behind the image of powerful tanks conquering nations, strutting SS men in black uniforms, and Germans of all ages shrieking hysterical obedience to Der Fuehrer, the Third Reich was a hideous feudal mass of squalid infighting, backbiting, incompetence, and corruption.
Lewin also explores the banality of Hitler’s evil — his empty personal life, his narrow knowledge, his fetid obsessions. In short, tight chapters, he emerges as he should be remembered…a petty, uneducated, lazy, hate-filled dilettante who was able to turn his vile fantasies into an evil more vile reality.
The war itself is also explored…how Germany became a country of procurement and overreach…how it cut itself of from some of its best minds through the anti-Semitic policies.
