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Joachim Fest

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Joachim Fest


Born
in Berlin, Germany
December 08, 1926

Died
September 11, 2006

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Joachim Clemens Fest (1926-2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance to Nazism. He was a leading figure in the debate among German historians about the Nazi period.

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Hitler

4.23 avg rating — 2,366 ratings — published 1973 — 34 editions
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: The...

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Not I: Memoirs of a German ...

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The Face of the Third Reich...

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Speer: The Final Verdict

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Plotting Hitler's Death : T...

3.92 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions
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Albert Speer: Conversations...

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Hitler, Vol 1

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4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions
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Hitler - vol. 2

4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions
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Im Gegenlicht: Eine italien...

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“The need to magnify themselves, to bestir themselves, is characteristic of all illegitimates.”
Joachim C. Fest, Hitler

“Propaganda must above all be popular, he argued; it must not be aimed toward the intelligentsia but “always and exclusively to the masses,” and its level “must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”
Joachim C. Fest, Hitler

“The problems of the moment must never place the principle in doubt.”
Joachim Fest

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