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1988
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Ian Kershaw, « Le « mythe du Führer » et la dynamique de l'État nazi », Annales (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahess.1988.283509
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The '"Fürhrer Myth" and the Dynamic of the Nazi State. The problem of explaining the dynamism of the Nazi State, and in particular the role of Hitler, has always been an issue at the centre of historical debate on the Third Reich. This article approaches the problem by concentrating not on the person of Hitler, and his direct actions, but on his symbolic Führer authority, and, therefore, on perceptions of Hitler and what he appeared to represent. It is argued that, within a system of rule in which Hitler's "charismatic" authority was superimposed upon, and eroded, the formal structures of a modern, bureaucratic state, the "heroic" image of Hitler —the "Führer myth"— functioned on a number of different levels as an agent of integration, mobilisation, and legitimation, and thereby as a decisive factor in forcing the momentum of Nazi rule and the process which led to the implementation of Nazi ideological goals.
