Waite, Robert.

Kaiser and Führer : A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (532 pages) - Heritage Series . - Heritage Series .

COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Two Profiles -- 2 Weltanschauungen: Their Intellectual, Aesthetic, Religious, and Racial Worlds -- 3 Kaiser and Führer as Rulers in Peacetime: Theory and Practice -- 4 Kaiser and Führer as Rulers in War -- 5 Psychological Dimensions -- 6 Kaiser and Führer: The Childhood Experience -- Reflections -- Addendum 1: Scatology in German Life and Letters -- Addendum 2: The Kriegsschuldfrage and Historical Evidence -- Addendum 3: The Kaiser in Exile -- Addendum 4: Historical Continuity versus Change -- Addendum 5: Coprophilic Perversion? -- Addendum 6: Hitler and Incest -- Addendum 7: Dr Bloch and the Genesis of Hitler's Anti-Semitism -- Addendum 8: Hitler and Psychiatrists -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Waite uses a psychological approach to throw light on the personal lives and politics of Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler. Thoroughly documented and engagingly written this is a classic work of scholarship that will fascinate historians, psychologists, and general readers alike.

9781442664609


Hitler, Adolf,-1889-1945-Psychology.
William-II,-German Emperor,-1859-1941-Psychology.
Heads of state-Germany-Psychology.
Germany-Kings and rulers-Psychology.


Electronic books.

DD229 .W358 1998

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