[Jäckel’s] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler’s ideas from the ‘conventional foundations’ with which he began in 1920.

• Foreword by Franklin L. Ford Translator's Foreword Chapter I. The Problem of a National Socialist Weitanschauung II. The Outlines of Foreign Policy Ill. The Elimination of the Jews IV. The State as a Means to an End V. The View of History as a Synthesis VI. From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary Notes