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What books did he read?

>> No.18070009
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>>18069994
http://deutschland1880-1945.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-enigma-of-hitler-leon-degrelle.html

>His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He fairly lived on the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.

>He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin or Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.

>He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.

>His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.

>His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler's knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.

>> No.18070011

>>18069994
hitler was obsessed with karl may books and took his collection of them almost everywhere with him

>> No.18070045

>>18070009
I feel like this was written from a point of biase.

>>18070011
Well, Karl May was very popular Kaiserreich literature. Basically Germany's pre-WW1 Harry Potter, there was somewhat of a cult surrounding these books, to the point where the author himself would dress up as his characters in public. My mom still tries to get me to read them every now and again.

>> No.18070057

>>18070009
>Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.
LOL, truly politicians are dumb as a rock. People who studied law, business, physics should not rule. Military(who take power through undemocratic means) , political theorists, kings and philosophers should rule.

>> No.18070065

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/hitlers-forgotten-library/302727/

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>>18070009
Keked heavily

>> No.18070142

>>18070009
>or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.
Wow, they are litteraly me

>> No.18070149

>>18070009
As expected of the Führer

>> No.18070197

>>18070045
>karl may
>>18070011
what's the best karl may book for someone who liked blood meridian and last of the mohicans?

>> No.18070203

>>18069994
anyone got the quote of when a friend was helping him carry his luggage onto a train and it was just suitcases filled with books?

>> No.18070217

>>18070009
Pretty based NGL

>> No.18070335

>>18070203
Just read the book.

>> No.18070491

>>18070057
>political theorists
Any political theorists?

>> No.18070634

>>18070009
This does not jive at all with Albert Speer's memoir except the last paragraph, and then only insofar as technical knowledge. Architecture, film, weapons technology, and military science were his interest, with the last suffering from a degree of Dunning-Kruger.

>> No.18070646

>>18070009
The Nazi propaganda endeavours

>> No.18070657

>>18070634
i would also add civic planning and infrasturcture

>> No.18070661

>>18070065
>At another table a young man in a suit stared into an oversized volume of black-and-white photographs of graphic sex—leather, chains, sprawled limbs—with SEX embossed on the silver-metal cover
kek, so this is the mutt's most prestigious library

>> No.18070668

>>18070634
Speer was a liar.

>> No.18070680

>>18070668
cant make that sort of statement without citation, esp since he gushes over Hitler's strengths for chapters.

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>>18070668
Just because Speer spent his last years saying 'its my fault' over and over doesnt mean that he and hitler didnt hang around building mega cities all day in their spare time.

>> No.18070713

>>18070491
Nah, so long they are not liberals Its okay.

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It's not my usual thing but I might give this a try in honor of the GOAT's bday

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>>18070203
It's from August Kuzbiek's book.

>> No.18070836

>>18069994
high times magazine

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A bit of a sidebar, but this seems like a good place to plug my project to fellow /hitlit/ readers. I'm currently preparing Anna Bramwell's 'Blood and Soil: Wather Darre and Hitler's Green Party' to be printed for the first time since the 1980s. This is a pretty scarce volume (one run) and it shows up on green/eco fascism lists pretty often. The subject matter is very interesting if you want to take a look at how the NSDAP developed its program of teutonic yeomanry and threw off the shackles of Junkerism.

>> No.18070956

>>18070821
thanks mate

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>>18070954
Here's another sample from this effort. The source is a very poor PDF scan so it will take some effort to get it all together.

I am thinking of working on Arthur Pillans Laurie's 'The Case For Germany' next.

>> No.18071053

>>18070974
Based

>> No.18071077

>>18070974
Someone should do the Baynes 2 vols of speeches, they're only crappy scans online and the actual books go for thousands.

>> No.18071102

>>18069994
I think he liked Knut Hamsun, I read that the SA uniforms had a pocket specifically designed to fit a copy of Hunger but I don't know if that's true

>> No.18071104

>>18071077

I could definitely do that, my man. I was thinking about trying to do Domarus' Essential Hitler but that was published recently enough (2007) that I think Bolchazy-Carducci would try to get my little Lulu operation shut down.

>> No.18071126

>>18070009
Hitler was /lit/

>> No.18071142

>>18071104
If you have the time you definitely should. Right now I'm working on something like the Analects of Hitler, a collection of aphorisms that have universal applicability, i.e. things that weren't just rooted in historic context. Gonna try to keep it short and punchy, every quote a classic.

>> No.18071170

>>18070197
>what's the best karl may book for someone who liked blood meridian and last of the mohicans?

Tbh Karl May is german romanticism with indians. I really don't think Anglos could enjoy something that squarely.

>> No.18071198

>>18070009
This is from Leon Degrelle’s “Hitler Democrat” who was being hunted down by mossad.

>> No.18071201

>>18069994
My diary desu

>> No.18071206

>>18069994
Fucking tranny jannies fucking up a perfectly good thread, comparable to this one. Are /lit/ jannies just that fucking retarded?

>> No.18071211

>>18070009
Hitler...I kneel...

>> No.18071216

>>18069994
Thus spoke zarathustra and the antichrist

Anything from Nietzsche, im not lying.

>> No.18071236

>>18071142
That sounds like an interesting project. Keep us updated.

>> No.18071268

lol do you ever think he toked on his birthday?

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>>18071216
Also he loved visiting Nietzsches Sister.

>> No.18071306

>>18071278
He said that Schopenhauer was more intelligible and crystal clear.

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>>18069994
>What books did he read?

>> No.18071339

>>18071306
he said something like "the gulf between Schopenhauer and modern man is larger than that between modern man and primitive man"

>> No.18071513

>>18071278
So?

>> No.18071711

>>18070009
is he dare i say /ourguy/

>> No.18071980

>>18071198
I need to collect Degrelle's works. Very interesting guy.

>> No.18072029

My mother (a german history and politics teacher) freaks out whenever she sees this clip, because to her there is no way Hitler was a real person instead of the automatic devil machine of pure evil and hate.

>> No.18072044

>>18069994
very basic ones

>> No.18072052

>>18070009
>>He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ,

No he fucking didnt.

>> No.18072275

>>18070009

I know its a joke, but it's a literal propaganda in its purest form lol Every regime tries to portray its leader as intellectually superior being

>> No.18072304

>>18072275
>literal propaganda
This was written after Hitler died and Germany had lost the war. But either way, it is known from various sources that Hitler was well read. We don't have to take Degrelles biased word for it.

>> No.18072356

>>18072304
I don't buy for a second that he was an amazing polymath dazzling all the best doctors in Germany with his knowledge and sagely quoting Horace

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>>18072356
>it's difficult to quote Horace

>> No.18072389

>>18072356
Probably more like he knew some obscure fact and a doctor was mildly surprised and this guy embellished it.

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>>18069994

>> No.18072396

>>18072356
i wouldnt say he "dazzled the best doctors in germany" but i would say most doctors would be impressed if a politician had passing knowledge of medicine

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>>18072392

>> No.18072420

>>18069994
Happy Birthday Hitler!

>> No.18072511

>>18071142
you should also take the excerpts from Mein Kampf about how to teach history and how to read.

>> No.18072548

>>18070009
Based Hitler

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>>18070661
Madonna is America's greatest living writer lmao

>> No.18072565

>>18072052
He is above most Christians, as most Christians aren't aware that reincarnation is an active element.

>> No.18072573

>>18070954
You're doing God's work. Where can we find it when it's done? Libgen?

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>>18069994
Im a good ways into mein kampf and apparently he claims to have read lost of socialists and communists texts, however you wouldn't be too wrong for not believing it because he completely ignores good arguments because muh nation and people >>>>>>>> literally anything else

>> No.18072588

>>18071104
Domarus is a great resource, but his editorial asides are very obnoxious and even the "complete" edition is very incomplete.

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>>18072573
I'll release the PDF for free, and the paperback and hardcover versions will be on Lulu at cost. I'm not trying to make any money off this venture.

>>18072588
I'm sure, but it's a scarce resource so I figured it'd be nice to re-release it.

>> No.18072613

>>18069994
He (or Goebbels, i dont quite remember) invited Hamsun for a personal visit during the war. The protagonist from Growth of the Soil is in many ways a fascist ideal and the book was very popular in interwar Germany.

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>>18072583
>muh nation and people >>>>>>>> literally anything else
yes

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>>18072610

Darreanon here - I may also start some work translating books that have never come to English using tools like DeepL and hand-editing and confirming the translations.

If there are any notable works that need to be preserved and spread, I would like to help in that effort.

>> No.18073655

>>18073637
On the esoteric side of things: the Landig trilogy, Serrano 3 vol memoirs (Memorias de Él y Yo). Someone already made a start on Landig several years ago on blogspot but quit

>> No.18073688

>>18072052
Oh no anon, he did, almost to the point of obsession. Hitler read books we might today term 'new age' with a voracious appetite, and these included those on all such figures in the past.
This article also answers >>18069994

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>>18073655
Interesting -- this is looking like an eminently possible undertaking.

>> No.18073767

>>18073724
Wow that's not bad

>> No.18073770

>>18073655
As for Serrano's memoirs, I can find the first volume hosted on a few websites that won't let me download the PDF, and I cannot find anything for the further volumes. If you can help me locate these I would be extremely grateful and put them on the backlog.

>> No.18073780

>>18073767
Needs some hand tuning (e.g. Reich -> Empire, needs to remain 'Reich') but otherwise it's not so bad. I might accidentally learn German working on these projects.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_private_library?wprov=sfla1

>> No.18074064

>>18072356
you don't have to cope just because you haven't read horace anon

>> No.18074074

>>18070057
>kings should rule
I got good news and bad news

>> No.18074747

>>18070634
It does coincide with the book Hitler's private library. Speer tried to absolve himself of any wrongdoing and best of the Nazis. Worked reasonably cause he didn't get hanged.

>> No.18074799

>>18074747
Speer thought pretty highly of himself, which is why he defied the Nero order. He thought he was smarter than Hitler.

>> No.18074838

>>18074799
To be fair he was a pretty great architect. Impossible to find any good book about his work though.

>> No.18074867

>>18069994
Happy birthday, Hitler. I miss you.

>> No.18074869

>>18074838
I absolutely admire his work and he was pivotal to the successes of the NSDAP, but like most historical figures, he was a complicated man.

Apparently the Krier book is good but it's UNBELIEVABLY scarce, even by /hitlit/ standards.

>> No.18074900

>>18070057
>Military(who take power through undemocratic means)
>kings
Yes
>political theorists
>philosophers
That's even worse than technocrats.

>> No.18074923

>>18074869
Yeah I was just searching for the 2013 edition a few hours ago. 5 copies were in stock for like 70 bucks on amazon in my country not to long ago but the next day they were already gone. Really shit I didn't buy one.

>> No.18075011

>>18069994
Not my diary desu

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This is some torturously slow work.

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>>18072275
>Every regime tries to portray its leader as intellectually superior being

>> No.18075722

>>18075283
Yes

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>>18069994

>> No.18076339

Table talks are fake.

>> No.18076358

>>18075722
>He doesn't know who pol pot is