Unmasking Hitler

Among the many studies on German National Socialism that have appeared in the last forty to fifty years, one aspect has seldom been treated in detail: the cultural representations of Adolf Hitler from the late 1920s to the present. This book focuses on the image of Hitler in literature, photography, historiography, film, philosophy, theatre, and comic books by major artists and scholars such as Ernst Ottwalt, Heinrich Hoffmann, Bertolt Brecht, John Hearfield, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Chaplin, Theodor W. Adorno, Heiner Muller, and George Tabori. Jost Hermand is Vilas Research Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Klaus L. Berghahn has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1967 and holds the Weinstein-Bascom chair in German and Jewish studies.