TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kershaw, Ian
TI  - The "Hitler myth":  : image and reality in the Third Reich
SN  - 9780192802064
U1  - 943.086 
PY  - 1987///
CY  -  Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
N1  - Bib and Ref
N2  - Demonstrates how the manufactured Führer cult formed a crucial integrating force in the Third Reich and a vital element in the attainment of Nazi political aims. Masters of the new techniques of propaganda, the Nazis used them to exploit and build on the beliefs, phobias, and prejudices of the day. The admiration of the German people rested less on the bizarre and arcane precepts of Nazi ideology than on social and political values recognizable in many societies other than the Third Reich
ER  -