Main entry:

Stratigakos, Despina, author.

Title & Author:

Hitler at home / Despina Stratigakos.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

x, 373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-358) and index.
Introduction: The Power of Home -- Part I -- 1. Hitler Sets Up House: A Bachelor's Domestic Turn after 1928 -- 2. How the Chancellor Lives: A New Regime for an Old Palace -- 3. Cultivated Interiors: The 1935 Renovation of the Prince Regent Square Apartment -- 4. From Haus Wachenfeld to the Berghof: The Domestic Face of Empire -- 5. Gerdy Troost: Hitler's Other Chosen Architect -- Part II -- 6. Campaign Politics and the Invention of the Private Hitler -- 7. An Alpine Seduction: Propaganda and the Man on the Mountain -- 8. The Squire of Berchtesgaden: The Making of a Myth in the Foreign Press -- 9. War and the English-Language Media's Reappraisal of the Domestic Hitler -- 10. Secrets in the Cellar: Bombing, Looting, and the Reinvention of Hitler's Domesticity -- 11. "Adolf Doesn't Live Here Anymore": The Troublesome Afterlife of Hitler's Homes.

Summary:

"A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler's bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator's three dwellings--the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg--to foster the myth of the Fuhrer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler's interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780300183818
030018381X
0300222920 (pbk.)
9780300222920 (pbk.)

Subject:

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Homes and haunts.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Psychology.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Troost, Gerdy 1904-2003
Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
München, ...
15.70 history of Europe.
Psychology
Homes
Architektur
Wohnung
Propaganda
Berlin
Obersalzberg
Duitsland.
(lcsh)Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Homes and haunts.
(lcsh)Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Psychology.
(fast)Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
(fast)Psychology.
(fast)Homes.
(gtt)Duitsland.
(fast)Biographies.
(lcgft)Biographies.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290544
Call No.: BIB 233593
Status: Available