O retrato de Hitler: a biografia como escrita historiográfica
Adolf Hitler; Ian Kershaw, Historiography; Biography.
This thesis aims to analyze the means and circumstances by which the image of Adolf
Hitler was produced in the writing of the biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler, 1936-1945:
Nemesi by British historian Ian Kershaw. This means identifying which portrait was formulated
through the narrative elements of the biography, as well as investigating how the scientific operation -
the broader context of the work's production, such as: the social place, practices and writings of the
biographer, who this biographer was and his intellectual environment; how was the process of
construction (gestation) of Hitler's image in other works of the author; the context of writing the
biography; the dialogues that existed between the constructed character and the already
institutionalized profil of Hitler, what were the prevailing models of the leader of the Third Reich in
the period of writing the work, and, therefore, how the author fitted into and departed from these
writing patterns, etc. -which provided to constitute the portrait of Adolf Hitler.