Hitler at Home Hardcover – September 29, 2015

The study of Hitler domestic persona both in reality and in propaganda is well researched, fascinating and made such an entertaining but also grim read. I'm particular glad to read about the Atelier Toost. The house for decorative arts that Hitler's personal taste struck and bound with. Little know history that he was surprisingly obsessed with architectures and decorative arts, especially on his own household and office domains.I'm mad however at the the condition of the book that I've received. The paper headband is torn about an inch and worst of all, after reading some pages, the pages started to fall apart from the spine!!! It has been bound terribly that much is obvious. So the price tag doesn't respond to this terrible condition of this book at all.

A wonderfully researched book which approaches Hilter from a completely different angle. If someone visited your home, what impression would this is impart to someone who had no other first-hand knowledge of you? That's the basic premise of the book and it's a fast and interesting read. If you have spent any time in Berchtesgaden or seen Hitler's Munich apartment (which is still intact, but now a police station), you will likely appreciate this work even more.

Members of my generation, X/millennials, are accustomed to viewing Hitler only as he is depicted today: sinister, apocryphal, and the very embodiment of evil. The very vast majority of images shown to us impart, scream really, foreboding as if the images themselves can be heard to play o Fortuna in the background. It is no wonder so many of us ask ourselves "how is it at all possible that they, all of them, didn't see it coming?"Hitler at Home helps in part to answer that question. By giving us a fuller view of Nazi propaganda efforts, both for domestic and foreign consumption, to balance the image of Hitler as the embodiment of power with one of Hilter as "of the people." It is possible to see where one at the time might have allowed oneself comfort from any premonition of Hitler's true intention by the image of Hitler hand feeding deer. As the author points out subtly reinforcing for the viewer the notion that animals can "sense" evil.I have read a few "standards" on the Third Reich but none in quite some time with the originality of Hitler at Home.

You don’t have to be a history lover to love this book. Hitler at Home is an exciting exposition of evidence of Hitler’s personal life in relation to his residences and their role in portraying him to the world. The author has a lively style of writing which presents a fascinating and detailed account of how the Third Reich propaganda machine made the rather stodgy and bland Hitler into the figure of a cultured attractive bachelor and father of the homeland.All nations use propaganda, myth, symbol and images to honor their leaders, but the Third Reich took that notion to perhaps the highest level ever. We have all seen the many photos of Hitler and his homes from the Third Reich era, but not until now, with Stratigakos’ book, has anyone pulled together and scrutinized the details of exactly how Hitler’s image was created as it relates to his interesting residences. The author gives us a previously generally unknown and vivid account of the roles of among others, Gerdy Troost, in acting as Hitler’s soulmate in architecture and interior design for his homes.A well written and thoroughly researched book, Hitler at Home is a good bet for anyone’s reading list.

An interesting book and fast delivery.

You can't exactly love a book entitled Hitler at Home, but in the respect and interest categories this is indeed a five star production. I've looked into Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936 Hubris, and there's no Gerdy Troost. I've looked into Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler, and there's no Gerdy Troost. We know the stories of Hitler's major architects, Paul Troost, Albert Speer, Leonhard Gall, we've seen the pillars and the steps, but what about Hitler's interior designers, those who stood or sat next to him looking at floor plans, discussing colors? Gerdy Troost, wife and widow of Paul Troost, herself an architect, also an interior designer, film maker, business woman, artist, eventually gay, was Hitler's soulmate in the construction of his domestic life. Biography talks about Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, a suicide, and about Eva Braun, his Bavarian beauty, and generally overlooks Gerdy Troost, who had an intimacy with the Fuhrer no other woman, not even Winifred Wagner, attained. The Fuhrer and Gerdy poring over swaths, choosing flatware, talking about linen. Hitler is at home in Gerdy Troost's rooms. She's in official state photographs, on the famous Berghof porch with Goebbels and Ribbentrop or in the exhibition hall Hitler's curator. Stratigakos Hitler at Home is effectively a curatorial reading of Troost's design, certain rooms in certan places still existing. She engages other architects and designers, but it is Gerdy Troost's rugs and chairs that are before us beginning middle and end. It should quickly be said that Hitler at Home sustains an ongoing recognition of the other architecture and interior design in the Third Reich, festung und lager.Hitler at Home is magisterial, probably the definitive scholarly work on this subject, and it has Hollywood drama, a protagonist whose name is not Hitler, Gerdy Troost, who has just died in her nineties, a defiant Nazi to the end. Lowlife scoundrels and idiot ideologues mount the stagein Hitler at Home. The ironies that attend and involve the final demolition of Hitler's home in the Obersalzburg are brilliantly set forth. These episodes have a cinematic visuality and flow. We follow the American World War Two woman photographer, Lee Miller, as she and another photographer get into Hitler's Munich apartment. Turn the page. There she is, naked in Hitler's bathtub, showing us her bare shoulder. It is in some sense an epitome of certain sets of meaning in this complex study.Neil Schmitz

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Nice book

I usually hate it when Amazon reviewers base their ratings on everything but the book, but in this case it's impossible not to. Surely I can't be the only one to have had problems with the book's binding? Having got no further than 70 pages, the book has quite literally disintegrated, with pages falling out everywhere; to the extent as to make the book utterly unreadable. What a shame: from what I managed to read, this looked like an utterly enthralling study. Great author by the looks of it, but it'll be impossible for me to know for sure.

A truly excellent, fascinating book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and would recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in the topic.Stratigakos casts a clear, searching light on the use of domestic architecture in the construction of Hilter’s public persona and raises uncomfortable questions about the avid - andall too often uncritical - consumption of this mythology, then and now.

A very good book indeed, especially for those interested in Haus Wachenfeld/The Berghof and Hitler's Munich apartment. The book's title, whilst to the point, gives the impression of a book about a 'pipe & slippers' Hitler but don't be put off by the title as the book is far more detailed than that.

A fascinating insight into the private life of the dictator. More significantly a thorough analysis of the work of Gerdy Troost an important architect and interior designer tainted by her connection with the Nazis.

This book arrived very quickly. As it is a present I have not begun to read it yet. I have checked its condition though and it is completely as new and looks very relevant .Thank you.