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Tables of Contents for Explaining Hitler
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Baby Pictures and the Abyss
xi
Part One The Beginning of the Beginning
3
60
CHAPTER 1. The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers
3
13
CHAPTER 2. The Hitler Family Film Noir
16
21
CHAPTER 3. The Poison Kitchen: The Forgotten First Explainers
37
26
Part Two Two Postwar Visions: Sincerity and Its Counterfeit
63
36
CHAPTER 4. The Professor and the Mountebank
63
15
H.R. Trevor-Roper
CHAPTER 5. Rethinking Hitler's Thought Process
78
21
Alan Bullock
Part Three Geli Raubal and Hitler's "Sexual Secret"
99
56
CHAPTER 6. Was Hitler "Unnatural"?
99
19
CHAPTER 7. Hitler's Songbird and the Suicide Register
118
17
CHAPTER 8. The Dark Matter: The Sexual Fantasy of the Hitler Explainers
135
20
Part Four Hatred: Complex and Primitive
155
46
CHAPTER 9. Fritz Gerlich and the Trial of Hitler's Nose
155
24
CHAPTER 10. The Shadow Hitler, His "Primitive Hatred," and the "Strange Bond"
179
22
Part Five The Art of Evil and the Future of It
201
38
CHAPTER 11. To the Gestapo Cottage; or, A Night Close to the Fuhrer
201
20
CHAPTER 12. The Big Oops
221
18
David Irving
Part Six The War over the Question Why
239
40
CHAPTER 13. A Tale of Three Kafkas: A Cautionary Parable
239
12
CHAPTER 14. Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why
251
16
CHAPTER 15. Dr. Louis Micheels: There Must Be a Why
267
12
Part Seven Blame and Origins
279
118
CHAPTER 16. The Temptation to Blame God
279
21
Emil Fackenheim
Yehuda Bauer
CHAPTER 17. Singling out the Jewish "Invention of Conscience"
300
19
George Steiner
CHAPTER 18. Singling out Christianity: The Passion Play of Hyam Maccoby
319
18
CHAPTER 19. Blaming Germans
337
32
Daniel Goldhagen
CHAPTER 20. Blaming Adolf Hitler
369
28
Lucy Dawidowicz
Notes
397
28
Acknowledgments
425
4
Index
429