ABSTRACT
In The "Hitler Myth", Ian Kershaw successfully realized his aim of illuminating how the Nazi regime functioned by focusing on how ordinary Germans viewed Adolf Hitler, and how their perspectives changed over time. Ian Kershaw describes popular perceptions of Hitler and the propagandistic efforts that went into the making of Hitler's image. His sources are primarily from Bavaria-where some of the richest and most diversified materials on public opinion have survived-and they are densest for the period between 1930 and 1941. One problem that Kershaw felt the need to remedy in the English edition, and which some reviewers had commented upon at the outset, was the geographically restricted nature of his sources. Because his research had been carried out as part of the historian Martin Broszat's grand research project on "Bavaria under National Socialism", most of Kershaw's original source material necessarily came from archives in Bavaria alone.
