Joachim Fest (Author of Hitler)

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Joachim Fest

Born

in Berlin, Germany

December 08, 1926

Died

September 11, 2006

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics

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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 — 2,320 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest, Margot Dembo (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest, Martin Chalmers (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership 4.01 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1963 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest, Ewald Osers (Translator), Alexandra Dring (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plotting Hitler's Death : The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945 3.91 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect by Joachim Fest, Albert Speer 3.89 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler, Vol 1 by Joachim Fest, Francisco Manuel da Rocha Filho (Translator), Ana L煤cia Teixeira Ribeiro (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler - vol. 2 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Im Gegenlicht: Eine italienische Reise 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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

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

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