How Hitler used a lie about November 9 as the foundation for the Third Reich

Thomas Weber

How Hitler used a lie about November 9 as the foundation for the Third Reich

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Abstract

As Adolf Hitler worked on his secret first autobiography in the summer of 1923, he faced a problem. He had decided that in Adolf Hitler: His Life and His Speeches, to be published as a biography attributed to the young right-wing writer Adolf-Victor von Koerber, he would present himself as a boy from Austria whose formative experiences had led him to political revelations about the hidden architecture of the world.

His pitch would be that these revelations would allow him to become Germany’s saviour at the very moment of the country’s most dire need.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation UK
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2017

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Thomas Weber received funding from the British Academy and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to help him write Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi.

Keywords

Germany
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
mein kampf
Third Reich
Joseph Goebbels
Kristallnacht

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How Hitler used a lie about November 9 as the foundation for the Third Reich

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