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...FUEHRER, HITLER'S RISE TO POWER-Konrad Heiden-Haughton, Mifflin...
...face of Adolf Hitler. It was also, according to Konrad Heiden, refugee journalist-specialist in Hitlerism, the face of a "new social type," a face which may vary from country to country but which, in Europe, "is always topped by a soldier's cap." The day of "religious man" and of "economic man" is dead, says Heiden; it is "intellectual man who is becoming the new ruler...
...Will It Work?" Author Heiden, son of a German trade-union official, has studied this face for 23 years - following Hitler, says Dorothy Thompson, "like a Javert tracking down...
...heard Hitler's first ravings in the Munich beer halls. When the Brownshirts began to parade the streets, Heiden led Munich University students in protest against the paraders. In 1923 he joined the staff of the Frankfurter Zeitung, with the special assignment of covering the National Socialist movement in Munich. He is credited with coining the word "Nazi" - as a term of contempt, because in Bavaria "nazi" was a slang term for a country bumpkin. He "marched" surreptitiously with the Nazis in their beer-hall Putsch, later saw the doors of Landsberg Prison clang behind Hitler. He wrote...
...Heiden's new book is the Book-of-the-Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany since 1918 and a discourse on Germanic thought from Hegel to Hitler. The theme that binds it all together, if any thing does, may not seem to some readers like thoughtfully balanced sociology. Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical...