000436428 000__ 03516cam\a2200349\a\4500 000436428 001__ 436428 000436428 005__ 20210513152400.0 000436428 008__ 110316s2011\\\\pau\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\c 000436428 010__ $$a 2011011167 000436428 020__ $$a9780812243383 000436428 020__ $$a0812243382 000436428 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn696092181 000436428 040__ $$aPU/DLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dERASA$$dOUP$$dBWX$$dVRC$$dVVC$$dCDX$$dUKMGB$$dMIX$$dEDK$$dYBM$$dBDX$$dVP@ 000436428 042__ $$apcc 000436428 043__ $$ae-gx---$$an-us--- 000436428 049__ $$aISEA 000436428 05000 $$aDD247.H5$$bF525 2011 000436428 08200 $$a327.4307309/043$$222 000436428 1001_ $$aFischer, Klaus P.,$$d1942- 000436428 24510 $$aHitler & America /$$cKlaus P. Fischer. 000436428 2463_ $$aHitler and America 000436428 260__ $$aPhiladelphia :$$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$$cc2011. 000436428 300__ $$avi, 356 p. ;$$c24 cm. 000436428 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000436428 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 1: Hitler's split image of America -- 2: Hitler takes risks and America legislates itself into neutrality: 1933-1937 -- 3: Hitler's year: 1938 -- 4: Hitler's war against the west: 1939-1941 -- 5: World will hold its breath: 1941 -- 6: Tide of war shifts in favor of Hitler's opponents -- 7: Prospects for a separate peace in 1943 -- 8: Hitler and the "unnatural alliance": 1944-1945 -- 9: This war against America is a tragedy -- Conclusion: Hitler and the end of a greater Reich. 000436428 520__ $$aOverview: In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production-especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of transportation, particularly the automobile. He loved automobiles and saw in Henry Ford a great hero of the industrial age. Hitler's personal train was even code-named "Amerika." In Hitler and America, historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America: America and Amerika. Hitler would loudly call the United States a feeble country while at the same time referring to it as an industrial colossus worthy of imitation. Or he would belittle America in the vilest terms while at the same time looking at the latest photos from the United States, watching American films, and amusing himself with Mickey Mouse cartoons. America was a place that Hitler admired-for the can-do spirit of the American people, which he attributed to their Nordic blood-and envied-for its enormous territorial size, abundant resources, and political power. Amerika, however, was to Hitler a mongrel nation, grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews. Across the Atlantic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own, far more realistically grounded views of Hitler. Fischer contrasts these with the misconceptions and misunderstandings that caused Hitler, in the end, to see only Amerika, not America, and led to his defeat. 000436428 60010 $$aHitler, Adolf,$$d1889-1945$$xPolitical and social views. 000436428 60010 $$aHitler, Adolf,$$d1889-1945$$xPsychology. 000436428 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 000436428 651_0 $$aGermany$$xForeign relations$$y1933-1945. 000436428 651_0 $$aGermany$$xForeign relations$$zUnited States. 000436428 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xForeign relations$$zGermany. 000436428 85200 $$bgen$$hDD247.H5$$iF525$$i2011 000436428 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:436428$$pGLOBAL_SET 000436428 980__ $$aBIB 000436428 980__ $$aBOOK