Hitler's Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation

by David Redles

Book Overview

After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those who converted to Nazism, and thus became not only F hrer, but Messiah contends David Redles, who believes that millenarian sentiment was central to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814776213
• ISBN13: 9780814776216
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"