Hitler and the Nazi Party

doi:10.1017/9781108913614.018

15 - Hitler and the Nazi Party

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Thomas Weber

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Mark Roseman and

Dan Stone

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Mark Roseman: Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone: Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London

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This chapter explores Hitler’s role in the Nazi Party, with a particular focus on Hitler’s relationship to antisemitism. It carefully examines the evidence concerning Hitler’s views towards Jews, and argues forcefully for the emergence in the 1920s of a vision that was already at least implicitly genocidal and certainly murderous. It thus makes a forceful case both for continuity in Hitler’s ideas leading to the Holocaust, and for the primacy of his vision in determining the later policy towards Jews adopted by the Nazi regime.

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Hitler antisemitism biography First World War Mein Kampf Weimar Republic finance capitalism anticommunism Nazi Party

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 309 - 327

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913614.018 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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