Early associates such as Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Hermann Esser all claimed that Hitler revered alcoholic playwright Dietrich Eckart more than any other colleague. Eminent German historians Karl Dietrich Bracher, Werner Maser, Georg Franz-Willig, and Ernst Nolte have confirmed this assessment. Hitler not only dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart, he hung his portrait in Munich's Brown House, placed a bust of him in the Reich Chancellery next to one of Bismarck, and named Berlin's 1936 Olympic stadium the Dietrich Ekcart Outdoor Theater. Yet British-American scholarship has virtually ignored "Nazism's Spiritual Father." J. H. Tyson weaves Eckart's biography into a colorful account of modern German history.
HITLER'S MENTOR: DIETRICH ECKART, His Life, Times, & Milieu
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As the author notes and, as my own research has discovered, little has been written about Dietrich Eckart and his influence on Adolf Hitler, until now. This brilliant work makes a meal of Hitler's muse and it does so completely, forcefully, and authoritatively. Highly readable, it definitively proves that Eckart's influence on Hitler was massive and, in turn, belays the myth that Hitler himself was responsible for his own psychological and ideological mania. A superb, challenging book! An extraordinary achievement!
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