Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future.(Book Review)

Hitler in Vienna 1907-1913: Clues to the Future. By J. Sydney Jones. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 350. $26.47.)

Although Adolf Hitler's time in Vienna has long been the stuff of mystery, this reprint of a book published in 1982 does little to present new clues as to the formation of Hitler's ideas during his late teens and early twenties. To hear Hitler tell it in Mein Kampf, Vienna shaped what would become his Nazi worldview because it was there that he discovered the Jewish menace and the perils of Marxism. Hitler's interest when dictating Mein Kampf…