Hitler’s Vienna
by Brigitte Hamann
Brigitte Hamann was a contemporary Austrian academic who went to great lengths to study his life. It’s quite tricky because he provided his own account in Mein Kampf, so you appear to know. She used an incredible amount of legwork to separate the reality from the mythology.
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“Brigitte Hamann was a contemporary Austrian academic who went to great lengths to study his life. It’s quite tricky because Hitler provided his own account in Mein Kampf, which includes an account of his childhood and his time in both Vienna and Munich before and after WWI, so you appear to know. She used an incredible amount of legwork to separate the reality from the mythology. He constructed his whole life, his odyssey, as a form of political mythology.” Read more...
Michael Burleigh, Historian
