only the jews have suffered and because of these alleged horrors the entire earth must question if god exists blah blah blah. this book and the jewish narcissism that surrounds it are the real crime.

for crying out loud the author casually throws out the horrible fact that the belgians murdered 20 MILLION africans out of a population of 35 million! my god thats over 2/3 of congos people and nearly half of all of ww2 dead but the jews insist that the "holo" was unique and thus somehow more important.

what really happened in ww2 is that the germans (twice) sought colonies in europe instead of africa, asia or the americas. the germans used the same ethnic chauvinism and racist sterotyping that the anglos, french, spanish, portugese, belgians and the rest of the predatory european ruling class had used to justify the abject murder and rape of the subject populations.

there was nothing unique about hitler, absolutely nothing demonic. he was merely the latest in a long line of murderous colonial rulers that european "culture" produced. his only mistake was trying to do to the europeans what the europeans did for centuries to everyone else. (similar to the spartans enslaving fellow greeks instead of the outsider "barbarians")

new documents and research have illustrated that much of the horrors alleged against the jews did not happen and in fact it was europes slavic population the endured the brunt of german savagery.

the question of evil should more relevantly be raised against the jewish intellectuals that populated stalins regime and liquidated some 15-20million soviet citizens due to their "class".

there is more than enough evil to go around for everyone.

Very good book. Could not put it down. However, one might have to re-evaluate in light of the atrocious slate columns of the author. What on earth?

This is a book quite different to any other book I have read before. It is probing, controversial and, speculative. It has a philosophical bent to it and will make you think.

The book revolves not only about Hitler but also about the Holocaust and the Germans. Before reading this book, I happened to read Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "Hitler's willing executioners". Goldhagen puts the Holocaust's responsibility squarely on the Germans but "Explaining Hitler" goes deeper and entertains the additional possibility that "no Hitler, no Holocaust".

The book has somewhat long chapters that sometimes feels were written in a haphazard fashion and, as a result of this, it is not a reader friendly book as far as reading mechanics go.

When I picked up this book, I did not know very much about the life of Adolph Hitler; after reading it, I'm not sure that I know very much more than bare facts. This is a really excellent account of the mind of Hitler (or rather, what scholars THINK the mind of Hitler must have been like), but it is definitely not for someone who is just starting to learn about the man. The book is densely written and sometimes quite difficult to understand. I appreciate the effort that was put into researching the book, but found that I really should have started out with a more "basic" book on Hitler before picking this one up. I would recommend the same for anyone who is just starting to learn about Hitler.

It would by now take several lifetimes to read all the literature concerning Hitler and the Holocaust but luckily author Ron Rosenbaum has done it for us and has concisely distilled it all into one stylishly written, riveting volume. Everything you ever wanted to know about Hitler, was his ancestry Jewish? Did he have just one ball? It's all here!

This book does not really explain Hilter. Rather it highlights what the various explanations for Hilter reveal about the people or societies attempting the explanations. Rosenbaum offers a balanced assessment of the various opinions commonly offered to explain what happened in Germany in the 1920's through the 1940's and the European reaction to those event. Explaining Hitler is not a full history of the Nazi era but it is a fascinating social analysis of our response to that era.

This book does not really explain Hilter. Rather it highlights what the various explanations for Hilter reveal about the people or societies attempting the explanations. Rosenbaum offers a balanced assessment of the various opinions commonly offered to explain what happened in Germany in the 1920's through the 1940's and the European reaction to those event. Explaining Hitler is not a full history of the Nazi era but it is a fascinating social analysis of our response to that era.