Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in American Magazines, 19231939

I expected this book to be a collection of reproduced newspapers and magazine clippings relating to Hitler from 1923 until he invaded Poland. One would expect this would be the content, considering the title of the book. Well, forget it. It's merely one long, dreary essay on how Hitler was treated in magazines, with some scanty examples thrown in here and there. Zalampas is hardly a Hitler scholar and omits many salient articles on Hitler's early career, especially ones from the "Literary Digest," the first American magazine to feature Hitler, as early as 1921. I don't really know the point of this exercise, it's not interesting, enlightening, or remotely intriguing.

I expected this book to be a collection of reproduced newspapers and magazine clippings relating to Hitler from 1923 until he invaded Poland. One would expect this would be the content, considering the title of the book. Well, forget it. It's merely one long, dreary essay on how Hitler was treated in magazines, with some scanty examples thrown in here and there. Zalampas is hardly a Hitler scholar and omits many salient articles on Hitler's early career, especially ones from the "Literary Digest," the first American magazine to feature Hitler, as early as 1921. I don't really know the point of this exercise, it's not interesting, enlightening, or remotely intriguing.