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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
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  • Published: 13 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448124947
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 55 min
  • Narrator: Michael Jayston

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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13 Sept 2012
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13 Sept 2012
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A fascinating exploration of the character of the most powerful and destructive man in history - to accompany a new BBC series.

Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader – fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues – and yet he commanded enormous support. So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the important question at the core of Laurence Rees’ new book.

The Holocaust, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the outbreak of the Second World War – all these cataclysmic events and more can be laid at Hitler’s door. Hitler was a war criminal arguably without precedent in the history of the world. Yet, as many who knew him confirm, Hitler was still able to exert a powerful influence over the people who encountered him.

In this fascinating book to accompany his new BBC series, the acclaimed historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler’s appeal, and reveals the role Hitler’s supposed ‘charisma’ played in his success. Rees’ previous work has explored the inner workings of the Nazi state in The Nazis: A Warning from History and the crimes they committed in Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution. The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler is a natural culmination of twenty years of writing and research on the Third Reich, and a remarkable examination of the man and the mind at the heart of it all.
  • Published: 13 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448124947
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 55 min
  • Narrator: Michael Jayston
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About the author

Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees is the author of The Holocaust: A New History, a Sunday Times bestseller that was described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the finest single volume on the Holocaust ever written’, by the Times as an ‘exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about’ and by the Mail on Sunday as ‘groundbreaking.’


A former Head of BBC TV History programmes, he has written nine books focusing on the Nazis and the Second World War. Many of them, including The Nazis: A Warning from History, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’, World War II: Behind Closed Doors and The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler, were also documentary TV series, which he wrote and produced.


Educated at Oxford University, for several years he was a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and the Open University.


His many awards include a British Book award, a BAFTA, a George Foster Peabody award, a Broadcasting Press Guild award, a Grierson award, a Broadcast award, two International Documentary awards and two Emmys.

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Also by Laurence Rees

Hitler and Stalin
The Nazi Mind
The Holocaust
Horror In The East
Selling Politics
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
Their Darkest Hour
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Praise for The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Offering acerbic insight ... this arresting account asks and answers all the right questions

Daily Telegraph

Laurence Rees asks, as always, the right questions, and provides excellent answers. Blending the oral testimony of contemporaries with documentary evidence, he offers sharp insight into the adulation of Hitler by millions of Germans that underpinned his 'charismatic rule'

Professor Sir Ian Kershaw

Laurence Rees has done more for good history on television in this country than anyone else. Over several series, he has examined the most terrible aspects of the Second World War with a passionate longing to understand, while rejecting facile moral judgment

Sir Antony Beevor

Laurence Rees is currently producing the best documentaries ever made about the Nazi era

Clive James

Laurence Rees is currently producing the best documentaries ever made about the Nazi era

Clive James

Laurence Rees has done more for good history on television in this country than anyone else. Over several series, he has examined the most terrible aspects of the Second World War with a passionate longing to understand, while rejecting facile moral judgment

Antony Beevor

Laurence Rees asks, as always, the right questions, and provides excellent answers. Blending the oral testimony of contemporaries with documentary evidence, he offers sharp insight into the adulation of Hitler by millions of Germans that underpinned his "charismatic rule"’

Professor Sir Ian Kershaw