Ian Kershaw

Lear’s trust in his other two daughters, Goneril and Regan is shattered when Regan tells him that he will have to dismiss fifty soldiers if he is to stay with her. In response, Lear says, “But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter-/Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh/Which I needs must call mine” (2.4.220-222). His contempt and his discovery of their intentions that were hidden behind their “love” for him are shown. Here, Lear’s blind trust that he placed in his daughters shows his…

The first act promptly begins with Lear’s surprising announcement about relinquishing his power to his three daughters. He pledges “our largest bounty may extend” (1.1.57) to whomever loves him the most. Beginning with Lear’s major discourse throughout the play, we get the sense that power is the dominant force that's at the centre of this family. Lear states first “to shake all cares and business from our [Lear’s] age”(1.1.41) and then taking that boundless power to his children, where he can…

In the inquest of Ian Tomlinson’s death the police officer claimed that his actions were in self-defence and he genuinely believed that the victim, who was walking away with his hands in pockets, was posing “risk or unknown risk” (IPCC, 2010, p. 104), by displaying hostility…

used a wide variety of sources to collect his information, as opposed to Hitler having everything come from himself. What Kershaw suggests in the monograph was that Hitler was a product of the ‘Hitler Myth’. The ‘Hitler Myth’, or rather ‘Führer Myth’, was an “image-building” technique used as propaganda to entice the masses by having a leader that would lead Germany. Kershaw mentions that there was a time where Hitler was just to drum up support in order to pave the way for the rightful leader…

This notion was explored in depth by historian Ian Kershaw in his 1987 book The Hitler Myth Image and Reality in The Thirds Reich. Using a method centered on the public image of Hitler, Kershaw revealed that Hitler’s rise to power was not caused by any particular successes in revitalizing Germany’s ailing economy in the 1930’s. Rather, Hitler was able to seize power because…

For many historians, especially those writing immediately after the Second World War, Hitler's leadership and control of political life in the Third Reich were regarded to be strong and completely absolute. This view is perhaps best emphasized by Norman Rich who commented that ‘the point cannot be stressed too strongly; Hitler was the Master of the Third Reich". 1 Such historians take the view that Hitler devised a plan for the Third Reich, outlined in his book ‘Mein Kampf'. Historians writing…

Hitler’s Vienna Experiences Introduction Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889. According to Ian Kershaw, the young Adolf Hitler was moody and became hostile towards his father Alois when the family moved to Linz. Hitler initially wanted to be a priest but moved to Vienna, Austria in 1907 to pursue training at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. He was turned down for admission twice, an experience embittered him. Hitler remained in Vienna living off a small…

Germany, therefore decreasing support for other parties in the Reichstag.3 There are many historians such as the functionalistic historians who have argued that Hitler played no crucial role in the rise to power by the NSDAP. Historians such as Ian Kershaw and Hans Mommsen believe that Hitler was a “weak dictator” and his success was only due to the projections of the people, who needed a savior at that time, and not due to any of Hitler’s abilities such as his oratory…

Fuhrer and present himself as the larger than life savior of Germany. Famed historian Ian Kershaw, in his intriguing book The Hitler Myth Image and reality in the Third Reich, discussed at length the reasons behind Hitler’s ascendance to power. At the core of Kershaw’s positions is a main argument that Hitler’s success was more attributable to his image as leader than to his actual accomplishments. Nevertheless, Kershaw revealed that the image was enough to propel Hitler to the chancellery of…

which he finished writing after prison (Lukacs, 2017). By this time, Hitler had developed all the ideas he used during his dictatorship. For example, he thought that Germany would not prosper unless it was under one political party and one Führer (Kershaw 8). In addition, he believed that Germans were being stripped of their purity by Jewish immigrants. He was against the notion that they could become German citizens. Apart from prison, Hitler did not experience too many obstacles in his early…