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The Hitler Virus

The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler

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The Hitler Virus

By: Peter Wyden
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
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In spring 1945, as the Russians moved on Berlin and it became clear the Nazi cause was lost, Adolf Hitler assured his most trusted henchmen that even if he were to die, "the seed of National Socialism will grow again one day [in]…a radiant rebirth." Several times after the war, the distinguished author Peter Wyden, himself a victim of the Nazis, returned to Germany to discover, to his dismay, that Hitler's prediction was all too true. In this unsettling audiobook, Wyden documents the reality that the "Hitler virus" is still very much alive. A harrowing companion to Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this book is Wyden's legacy to the world.

©2001 Peter Wyden (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Military Wars & Conflicts World War II War Holocaust Soviet Union Scary Imperialism Socialism

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Peter Wyden, author of The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler has firsthand experience with the Nazis. This audiobook explores how Hitler's ideology and persona have managed to haunt society even to this day. Robin Sach's performance of this text is chilling. His clear diction helps listeners understand the way National Socialism has become viral in sophisticated cultures, even in modern-day Germany where experts once thought such ideology had been all but wiped out.
Well-written Book • Interesting Perspective • Insightful Analysis • Useful Framework • Clear Explanation
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Was very interesting. History not learned is history repeated, as they say. A good reminder! Thank-you.
Narration was really good. Thank-you.

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As stated on my description. The book is well written, there are some interesting parts that other books fail to touch upon however there is the usual Victors bias injected throughout amd their are some major factual errors. (no soap was ever made from the fat of murdered Jews...even Yad Vashem has admitted this is a fallacy).

Well written but factually flawed

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Good solid info. Presented a bit slowly at first but definitely info worth pondering long after

Good read

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Despite being published a couple of decades ago, this analysis of the lingering Nazi ideology and the history of persecution is fascinating. Maybe it has even more to say since we know how things have been going during the 21st-century.

This is so timely

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I thought the book was interesting. It was a different perspective from what I usually read. The narrator was at times very robotic, but if you could get past that sometimes he actually put some emotion into his reading. Overall I would recommend it.

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I think this virus has been around a lot longer than Hitler. The Nazis drew a lot of inspiration from the US approach to dealing with the Native American people and use of African slave labor. The US wasn’t the first either. It’s as old as humanity, there is always some group of people who want to eradicate or enslave another group using one senseless distinction or another. Hitler was one diabolical scumbag in a long line of diabolical scumbags. We shouldn’t give him so much credit.

Virus of Hate

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true events but written with bias. would have liked more story around the facts.

factual but clinical

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Very insightful book. I never heard this virus threat explained so clearly as in this book! Very interesting and captivating.

Powerful

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very interesting book give me a different opinion of Germany and anti-Semitism and racism I thought it was gone but now I see how Hitler has made it go on forever someday I hope it will end but this is what happens when you tell the big lie just like Donald Trump is doing now with the big lie

Hitler virus

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I want to listen again. There is just so much information. Not a Nazi history, but the effects on the psyche of the people which Nazism has touched. Excellent and has a great reader!

excellent

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