/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18929779]

What did he read?

[Anonymous No.18929786]

The Talmud

[Anonymous No.18929789]

/pol/ infographics

[Anonymous No.18929793]

The Gospel of Thomas777

[Anonymous No.18929799]

>implying he could read

[Anonymous No.18929807]

Probably Lothrop Stoddard and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.18929846]

>>18929779
Rig Veda

[Anonymous No.18929913]

>>18929779
Warhammer 40k lore

[Anonymous No.18929918]

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fr*ck

[Anonymous No.18929921]

>>18929779
The Rienzi libretto.

[Anonymous No.18929964]

>>18929779
He was more of a mystic than a scholar.

[Anonymous No.18930090]

>>18929779
The bumbling, cowardly reports of his treasonous generals.

[Anonymous No.18930129]

He loved Hamsun and Trygve Gulbranssen, I think he was also into some medieval stuff and presumably all sorts of germanic romanticism

[Anonymous No.18930179]

>>18929779
not the clouds lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AVu6KupNg

[Anonymous No.18930277]

>>18929964
>What nonsense! Here we have at last reached an age that has left all mysticism behind it, and now [Himmler] wants to start that all over again. We might just as well have stayed with the church. At least it had tradition. To think that I may, some day, be turned into an SS saint! Can you imagine it? I would turn over in my grave ...

[Anonymous No.18930293]

Nietzsche, Hegel, Fichte, Treitschke, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. He also claimed to carry the The World as Will and Representation in his knapsack during WWI. According to his friend Kubizek and his Munich landlord most of his personal possessions were books. He also recommended Don Quixote to his sister IIRC. There’s also a description of his bookshelf from his Thierschstrasse 41 apartment but I forget the contents. Nevertheless German mythology and history were his favorite studies, and he also claimed to study architecture and other fields before definitively entering politics in his 30s.

[Anonymous No.18930308]

>>18929921
Rienzi is Wagner's worst opera.

[Anonymous No.18930329]

>>18929779
Schopenhauer, really

[Anonymous No.18930419]

>>18929964
Wow. I cannot believe someone could speak so confidently about a subject he knows absolutely nothing about. Hitler hated mysticism and read far more books than anyone on this board. An Anon from /pol/ has better knowledge over Hitler and WW2 than you could ever have.
>inb4 looks like I offended someone
I'm absolutely offended about how willingly ignorant your retarded ass is. Please for the love of god read a book instead of posting on /lit/ so you can actually talk about something without having your post be objectively wrong.

[Anonymous No.18930426]

Hitler read extensively sexual stories about excrements, that was his greatest passion besides guro hentai.

[Anonymous No.18930468]

>>18929779
Imagine if fascism had been pro-homosexuality (band of Thebes style). Executing Röhm was a mistake

[Anonymous No.18930475]

>>18929779
>His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He fairly lived on the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.

>He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin or Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.

>He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.

>His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.

>His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler's knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.

[Anonymous No.18930506]

>>18930475
that's from tim wiese's wiki though

>>18930293
this + some karl may and edgar wallace

[Anonymous No.18930750]

>>18929918
Kek

[Anonymous No.18930759]

>>18930468
He didn't execute Rohm because of homosexuality. It was because he wanted the SA to be combined with the military, with him at the top. Hitler couldn't allow that because he needed the support of the generals in order to secure his absolute authority.

[Anonymous No.18930824]

Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.18930828]

Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.18930941]

>Adolf Hitler's private library was Adolf Hitler's private collection of books, excluding books he purchased for the German state library. Baldur von Schirach, the leader of the Hitlerjugend, claimed that Hitler had about 6,000 volumes and that he had read each one. Tyler James Oechsner put his collection at 16,300 volumes.[1] No records exist to confirm this amount as several books were destroyed by The Allies.[2]

[Anonymous No.18930954]

>>18929779
The sheet music of Wagner and the poems of Goethe; all the while contemplating the moral implications of Kant on his leadership.

[Anonymous No.18931077]

>>18930090
>Guderian
>Paulus
>treasonous cowards
Ah the retarded Esoteric Hitlerists come out.

[Anonymous No.18931083]

>>18930759
I know, but homosexual repression increased after the SA’s decimation. It was a turning point in the regime

[Anonymous No.18931123]

By his own word;

>Machiavelli
>Schopenhauer
>Nietzsche

Are some of the only few confirmed authors he had read

[Anonymous No.18931132]

>>18930475
>>18930941
How else would someone go from hobo to world leader and at such a young age? It's not surprising he read so much

[Anonymous No.18931141]

>>18930277
>tfw you know a "conservative" who thinks Hitler fought for Jesus

[Anonymous No.18931144]

>>18931132
Regardless of your opinion on him, this feat alone BTFOs all the middle class socialists who rose to power. Hitler was a literal rags to riches story on steroids.
I wish he'd read more Spengler and Jung though.

[Anonymous No.18931186]

>>18931144
>They did meet... I could see Hitler had a bad conscience about it in my company, as he faked a sort of sleepiness, scratching his ear and asserting that Spengler had only talked in terms of compromise, that his whole background was too monarchist and conservative, and that he had no understanding of racial problems
t. hanfstaengl

[Anonymous No.18931305]

>tfw after the Fall of France Hitler considered himself finally transformed into the Übermensch, “more godlike than human”

[Anonymous No.18931339]

>>18929779
Gottfried Feder Economics

[Anonymous No.18931345]

If only if he read Marx, if only if he touched grass, how different things could've been.

[Anonymous No.18931475]

>>18931186
No surprise. As a former Nazi I see now having read Spengler how plebian and larpish the Nazis were. Very cool that the two met though. I vaguely remember reading about this now you mention it, didn't Spengler come away feeling underwhelmed?

[Anonymous No.18931487]

>>18931345
>touched grass
Log off, bro

[Anonymous No.18931625]

>>18930419
Prove it

Pro tip: you can't

Even the symbol of nazism is attached to ancient traditions, you ignorant.

[Anonymous No.18931691]

>>18931077
Paulus was quite literally a traitor since he surrendered and joined the Soviets.

[Anonymous No.18931727]

>>18929779
The international Jew by Henry Ford

[Anonymous No.18931757]

>>18931345
He read Marx in prison, i think

[Anonymous No.18931759]

>>18929789
Kek

[Anonymous No.18931798]

>He read, he said, everything he could get hold of: Nietzsche, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ranke, Treitschke, Marx, Bismarck’s Gedanken und Erinnerungen (Thoughts and Memories)
From Kershaw

[Anonymous No.18931805]

>>18929779
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.18932319]

>>18930468
>Imagine if fascism had been pro-homosexuality
Why the fuck would you want that?

[Anonymous No.18932369]

I highly recommend Joachim Fest's Hitler.

One of the best books ever written.

[Anonymous No.18932561]

>>18931475
>As a former Nazi I see now having read Spengler how plebian and larpish the Nazis were.
It's not LARPing if you have actual power. Hitler was absolutely correct about monarchists and conservatives. You being a "nazi"—that is LARPing.

[Anonymous No.18932572]

>>18931077
That was obviously a joke about Hitler's perception of ihis generals in the late days of the war.

[Anonymous No.18932582]

for real though what was Hitlers view on religion?

[Anonymous No.18932645]

>>18932582
Believed in God, dabbled in the occult and had a mystical sense of the world, admired the Germanic and Norse myths, and at best had an appreciation for Christianity but didn't care about its survival.

[Anonymous No.18932647]

Apparently there is a book "Hitler's Private Library" which covers this subject. Here is a review of it:
https://counter-currents.com/2016/05/hitlers-reading-habits/

>Apparently he did not dislike all novels, considering Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin [sic], and Gulliver’s Travels to be works of genius (Table Talk, February 17, 1942). He considered Shakespeare far superior to Goethe and Schiller, and loved to quote Hamlet and Julius Caesar. While hating Christian superstition and slave-morality, he apparently knew his Bible well.

[Anonymous No.18932669]

>>18932645
>Believed in God
what is the evidence for this? especially if he more or less rejected christianity?

[Anonymous No.18932676]

>>18932647
>Christian superstition
what is meant by this?

[Anonymous No.18932678]

Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.18932690]

>>18932647
Table talks are notoriously unreliable and the only reason anyone should source them is if it closely correlates with another source while keeping in mind its unreliableness.

[Anonymous No.18932703]

>>18929779
probably this, i mean anyone who knowingly gives the author of this trash book their hard earned mpounds is literally worse than hitler

[Anonymous No.18932728]

>>18929789

[Anonymous No.18932732]

>>18931487
You could say the same for Hitler and the Jews.

[Anonymous No.18932942]

>>18932647
>Uncle Tom’s Cabin
?

[Anonymous No.18933047]

>>18929779
European hearts and minds.

[Anonymous No.18933051]

>>18929913
Βασεδ

[Anonymous No.18933115]

>>18929779
more than an /lit/ poster thats for sure
Adolf Hitler's private library was Adolf Hitler's private collection of books, excluding books he purchased for the German state library. Baldur von Schirach, the leader of the Hitlerjugend, claimed that Hitler had about 6,000 volumes and that he had read each one. Tyler James Oechsner put his collection at 16,300 volumes.[1] No records exist to confirm this amount as several books were destroyed by The Allies.[2]

Although contemporaries say that he loved reading works by German authors, Nietzsche in particular, "there is no sign of Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer or Nietzsche in his library.[2]" He is said to have believed that Shakespeare was far superior to Goethe and Schiller. He had a copy of Georg Müller [de]'s 1925 translation of Shakespeare's collected works. He was fond of quoting certain lines throughout his life. Copies of Goethe, Schiller, Dante, and Schopenhauer may have been destroyed by Allied bombing so there is no way of knowing for certain whether his collection was lacking. His collection is said to have included "first editions of works by philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights, and novelists.[3]" He owned illustrated copies of Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe, which he ranked, along with Gulliver's Travels and Uncle Tom's Cabin, as the great works of world literature. Hitler himself was a voracious reader: he claimed to read at least one book a night, if not more. He was also given books as gifts by females of his acquaintance. "The only outstanding classical literary text found in his library today is the collected writings of Kleist

[Anonymous No.18933129]

>>18931475
Spengler himself said the the rise of NS was Prussian in spirit in Hour of Decision. So how can it be Larp? Spengler was a man of the book, not a man of action.
Fascism and National Socialism was the legitimate continuation of the Right post enlightenment and WW1.
Carl Schmitt himself thought so. Read his The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

[Anonymous No.18933407]

>>18929807
>>18930293
>>18931123
these and Madison Grant

[Anonymous No.18933427]

>>18931083
Yeah, because its leadership had been infested with homosexuals lol

[Anonymous No.18933480]

>>18931339
>>18931345
He had always been repulsed by economics and rarely, if ever, read it.

[Anonymous No.18933657]

>>18930475
>>18933115
Besides this he was a soldier and a painter. He really was an impressive man.

[Anonymous No.18933885]

I miss him bros

[Anonymous No.18934558]

>>18930475
>source: Léon Degrelle

Yeah you're going to have to cite some more credible people to confirm that.

[Anonymous No.18934951]

>>18934558
>Yeah you're going to have to cite some more credible people to confirm that.

[Anonymous No.18935024]

>>18933115
>there is no sign of Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer or Nietzsche in his library.
Maybe he didn't keep these books in his library, but on his person? Hard to believe the leader of Nazi Germany wouldn't be reading German philosophers who were the closest to him ideologically.

[Anonymous No.18935425]

>>18930475
should of spent his time on lit shitposting

[Anonymous No.18935450]

>>18929789
wrong. he read the comments that the /pol/ info-graphics were posted under

[Anonymous No.18936795]

>>18931305
*kills his self*

[Anonymous No.18936802]

>>18931487
Extremely ironic imagine, since right-wingers can't stop seething about jews and commies.