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© Peter Longerich 2019

First published in German by Sielder Verlag as Hitler: Biographie, 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Longerich, Peter, author. | Noakes, Jeremy, translator. | Sharpe, Lesley, 1952– translator.

Title: Hitler : a biography / Peter Longerich ; translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019015905| ISBN 9780190056735 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780198796091 (UK edition : alk. paper) | ebook ISBN 9780190057145

Subjects: LCSH: Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945. | Heads of state—Germany—Biography. | Germany—Politics and government—1933–1945. | National socialism. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)

Classification: LCC DD247.H5 L5613 2019 | DDC 943.086092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019015905

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