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100	1		_aVon Hildebrand, Dietrich, _d1889-1977, _eauthor. _914967
245	1	0	_aMy battle against Hitler : _bfaith, truth, and defiance in the shadow of the Third Reich / _cDietrich von Hildebrand ; edited and translated by John Henry Crosby with John F. Crosby.
260			_aNew York _bImage _c2014
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500			_aUnpublished memoir written in German.
505	0		_aPrologue -- PART 1. A LIFEOF DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND -- The Memoirs : 1921 -- 1923 -- 1932 -- 1933 -- 1934 -- 1935 -- 1936 -- 1937 -- Escape from Vienna -- PART 2. VON HILDEBRAND'S ESSAYS AGAINST THE NAZI IDEOLOGY -- Historic documents -- Report to Hitler citing von Hildebrand's magazine as the most outspoken anti-Nazi publication in Austria -- Secret dispatch to Hitler proposing assassination of von Hildebrand -- Letter of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- Memorandum by J. Edgar Hoover.
520			_a"How does a person become Hitler's enemy number one? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism. Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his intellect to breaking the deadly spell of Nazism that ensnared so many of his beloved countrymen. His story might well have been lost to us were it not for this memoir he penned in the last decades of his life at the request of his wife, Alice von Hildebrand. In My Battle Against Hitler, covering the years from 1921 to 1938, von Hildebrand tells of the scorn and ridicule he endured for sounding the alarm when many still viewed Hitler as a positive and inevitable force. He expresses the sorrow of having to leave behind his home, friends, and family in Germany to conduct his fight against the Nazis from Austria. He recounts how he defiantly challenged Nazism in the public square, prompting the German ambassador in Vienna to describe him to Hitler as 'the architect of the intellectual resistance in Austria.' And in the midst of all the danger he faced, he conveys his unwavering trust in God, even during his harrowing escape from Vienna and his desperate flight across Europe, with the Nazis always just one step behind. Dietrich von Hildebrand belongs to the very earliest anti-Nazi resistance. His public statements led the Nazis to blacklist him already in 1921, long before the horrors of the Third Reich and more than twenty-three years before the famous assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944. His battle would culminate in the countless articles he published in Vienna, a selection of which are featured in this volume. 'It is an immense privilege,' writes editor John Henry Crosby, founder of the Hildebrand Project, 'to present to the world the shining witness of one man who risked everything to follow his conscience and stand in defiance of tyranny.'"--
520			_a"This unpublished memoir from German-Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand demonstrates his opposition to anti-Semitism, his prescient understanding of just how deadly Nazism and Hitler would be, and his courage as he perpared to flee Germany"--
600	1	0	_aVon Hildebrand, Dietrich, _d1889-1977. _914968
650		0	_aPhilosophers _zGermany _vBiography. _914969
650		0	_aAnti-Nazi movement _zGermany _xHistory. _914970
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century. _914971
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. _2bisacsh _914972
650		7	_aHISTORY / Holocaust. _2bisacsh _914973
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. _2bisacsh _95654
651		0	_aGermany _xHistory _y1933-1945. _914974
700	1		_aCrosby, John Henry, _etranslator. _914975
700	1		_aCrosby, John F., _d1944- _etranslator. _914976
856	4	2	_3Cover image _u9780385347518.jpg
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