History 317 Lecture:  Hitler

The Commonality of Hitler

The Paradox of Hitler

Biography

            - origins

            - youth

            - Hitler at war

            - Hitler as politician

            - Hitler gains power

Historiography of Hitler

            - traditional:  Bullock

            - ideological:  Jäckel

            - biological:  Maser

            - rhetorical:  Stern

            - psychobiological:  Langer, Waite

                        - ancestry

                        - Hitler's mother:  Binion

                        - abnormality

                        - primal scene:  Langer

                        - syphillis

                        - billy-goat

                        - Hitler and necrophilia:  Fromm

Post-Hitlerian historiography

The Hitler Appeal

            - World War II

            - Götterdämmerung

            - power

Hitler as Symbol

The Inadequacy of language

Hitler as cultural and religious artifact

            - German culture

            - American culture

                        - Hitler in literature

 Conclusion