Hannah Arendt Collection: The Life and Work of Adolf Hitler

On a recent visit to the Hannah Arendt Collection at Bard College, we came across this collection of books dedicated to the life and work of Adolf Hitler. Arendt no doubt explored Hitler’s character in an attempt to understand the political nature of as well as the dangers posed by totalitarian states. Displayed in the image below are several volumes of note. Just right of center, we see a dark blue copy of Mein Kampf, an autobiographical manifesto which Hitler used to outline his future plans for his National Socialist ideology and for Germany. This is joined by Hitler’s Secret Book, a manuscript in which Hitler secretly outlined his plan to conquer the modern world. Hitler, a bestselling biography written by Joachim Fest, follows next. Finally, Hitler's Weltanschauung: A Blueprint for Power, in which Eberhard Jaeckel, Professor of History at the University of Stuttgart, argues that Hitler indeed possessed a cogent worldview from which he pursued his aspirations, is seen second from right.

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