Sur Hitler : avatars récents du genre biographique

Although the biographical approach has been considered as out of date by many historians, one had to notice a new wave of such publications on Hitler in the eighties and nineties. Some took the shape of essays on his personality and action, others, while denying to be biographies in the old sense, still used a narrative method « from the cradle to the grave ». In the best cases however, relations between the Fiihrer and the people were brought into full light by having recourse to the weberian theory of charismatic power. « Parallel lives », e.g. of Hitler and Stalin, are also to be mentioned.