Talk:Explaining Hitler

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Binion ignores here that Hitler actually valued Eduard Bloch highly throughout his life and gave him special privileges in 1938 that probably saved his life and allowed him to escape into exile to the United States.--Weltweltwelt 20:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC) here is a link on Binion from the New York Review of Books

"Explaining Hitler" is actually a historiographic study that brings together many serious attempts to understand Hitler and grasp his anti-Semitism. This is what the article needs to emphasize.Lolliapaulina51 (talk) 19:48, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

So what is this book really about? Right now, it reads "For example, Rosenbaum discusses a theory advanced by Rudolph Binion..." Discussing a theory is not the same as agreeing with it. Is this book just historiography? Did the man spend 10 years, researching all over the world, just to sum up the various theories on Hitler? Poldy Bloom (talk) 23:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

This article needs work. Lolliapaulina51 has the correct take on it, this book is historiographic review. Weltweltwelt wants to talk about the example used in the wikipedia article that "Explaining Hitler" rejects. Poldy Bloom is under the impression that historiography is bereft of analysis, when this book provides a compelling narrative of how to approach a figure such as Hitler. I think the article should mention one of the examples that Rosenbaum actually finds salient, like a short mention of the Münchener Post, or Hitler's Stenographic records, or a discussion of how Rosenbaum comes to view the roll of art in Hitler and his thinking. The current article is at best very misleading. I do not have a copy of the book, so I will not endeavor a rewrite of the article, but I can only hope that someone does, since it really is a very important take on Hitler and an important contribution to the field of historiography. Emorytaylor (talk) 07:41, 5 March 2012 (UTC)