Books by Brigitte Hamann
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.
Interviews where books by Brigitte Hamann were recommended
The best books on Hitler, recommended by Michael Burleigh
Hitler has a reputation as the incarnation of evil. But, as British historian Michael Burleigh points out in selecting the best books on the German dictator, Hitler was a bizarre and strangely empty character who never did a proper day’s work in his life, as well as a raving fantasist on to whom Germans were able to project their longings.
