Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Hitler's Split Image of America
Chapter 2. Hitler Takes Risks and America Legislates Itself into Neutrality: 1933-1937
Chapter 3. Hitler's Year: 1938
Chapter 4. Hitler's War against the West: 1939-1941
Chapter 5. The World Will Hold Its Breath: 1941
Chapter 6. The Tide of War Shifts in Favor of Hitler's Opponents
Chapter 7. Prospects for a Separate Peace in 1943
Chapter 8. Hitler and the "Unnatural Alliance": 1944-1945
Chapter 9. "This War against America Is a Tragedy"
Conclusion: Hitler and the End of a Greater Reich
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America, consisting of two contrary mental representations: America and Amerika.

About the Author

Klaus P. Fischer is Professor of History and Philosophy at Allan Hancock College and the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.

Reviews

"Hitler and America is an extraordinary book, chock-full of evidence and significant details about the complexity (and in some ways, the duality) of Hitler's consideration of the United States." (John Lukacs, author of The Hitler of History)