Hitler and America / / Klaus P. Fischer.
In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of prod...
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Fischer, Klaus P., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hitler and America / Klaus P. Fischer. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Hitler's Split Image of America -- CHAPTER 2. Hitler Takes Risks and America Legislates Itself into Neutrality: 1933-1937 -- CHAPTER 3. Hitler's Year: 1938 -- CHAPTER 4. Hitler's War against the West: 1939-1941 -- CHAPTER 5. The World Will Hold Its Breath: 1941 -- CHAPTER 6. The Tide of War Shifts in Favor of Hitler's Opponents -- CHAPTER 7. Prospects for a Separate Peace in 1943 -- CHAPTER 8. Hitler and the "Unnatural Alliance": 1944-1945 -- CHAPTER 9. "This War against America Is a Tragedy" -- CONCLUSION: Hitler and the End of a Greater Reich -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production-especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of transportation, particularly the automobile. He loved automobiles and saw in Henry Ford a great hero of the industrial age. Hitler's personal train was even code-named "Amerika."In Hitler and America, historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America: America and Amerika. Hitler would loudly call the United States a feeble country while at the same time referring to it as an industrial colossus worthy of imitation. Or he would belittle America in the vilest terms while at the same time looking at the latest photos from the United States, watching American films, and amusing himself with Mickey Mouse cartoons. America was a place that Hitler admired-for the can-do spirit of the American people, which he attributed to their Nordic blood-and envied-for its enormous territorial size, abundant resources, and political power. Amerika, however, was to Hitler a mongrel nation, grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews.Across the Atlantic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own, far more realistically grounded views of Hitler. Fischer contrasts these with the misconceptions and misunderstandings that caused Hitler, in the end, to see only Amerika, not America, and led to his defeat. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) World War, 1939-1945. American History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism. bisacsh American Studies. European History. History. Political Science. World History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Law & Political Science 9783110413526 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812243383 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204414 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204414 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204414/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Hitler's Split Image of America -- CHAPTER 2. Hitler Takes Risks and America Legislates Itself into Neutrality: 1933-1937 -- CHAPTER 3. Hitler's Year: 1938 -- CHAPTER 4. Hitler's War against the West: 1939-1941 -- CHAPTER 5. The World Will Hold Its Breath: 1941 -- CHAPTER 6. The Tide of War Shifts in Favor of Hitler's Opponents -- CHAPTER 7. Prospects for a Separate Peace in 1943 -- CHAPTER 8. Hitler and the "Unnatural Alliance": 1944-1945 -- CHAPTER 9. "This War against America Is a Tragedy" -- CONCLUSION: Hitler and the End of a Greater Reich -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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