Hitler’s Letters and Notes is a book by Werner Maser. It is a collection of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

’s personal correspondence and private notations with comments by Maser. It reproduces photo-facsimiles of the handwritten original documents, with translations thereof, from the age of 17 till his death. Maser contends that the book casts new light onto the development of Hitler’s political philosophy

Political philosophy

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.

It was first published in German

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 as Hitlers Briefe und Notizen: sein Weltbild in handschriftlichen Dokumenten in 1973 by Econ

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 (Düsseldorf

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, ISBN 3-430-16356-0). Heinemann

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 (London) published a slightly adapted translation (by Arnold Pomerans) as a 2099-page hardcover in 1974 (ISBN 0-434-45290-4), followed by Harper & Row in the U.S. (ISBN 0-06-012832-1). Bantam Books

Bantam Books

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 released a paperback in 1983 (ISBN 0-553-14082-5).

Contents

• A very interesting boy
• Preface
• Translator’s note
• Introduction

Part I

Letters and Bequests

• 1. Schoolboy, art student and conscientious objector
  Conscientious objector
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• 2. Munich
  Munich
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   and the First World War
• 3. In search of a new profile
• 4. On the threshold of power
• 5. Aftermath of failure

Part II

Hitler’s Political Philosophy

• 6. Antisemitism
• 7. The ‘Monumental History of Mankind’
• 8. The political testament of 1945
• Appendix: Eva Braun
  Eva Braun
  Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich, when she was 17 years old, while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later...
  
  ’s diary
• Notes
• Acknowledgements:
• (a) letters and notes
• (b) photographs and drawings
• Bibliography