The Adolf Hitler Collection

The Greatman’s Library Hitler Collection gathers the works that influenced Adolf Hitler. It reflects the blend of nationalist writings, scientific theories, popular literature, and historical studies that helped shape his worldview. Many of these texts circulated widely in late 19th- and early 20th-century German-speaking Europe, and their influence can be traced in both Hitler's private library and his rhetoric.

The collection contains nationalist tracts and völkisch literature that provided a framework for racial identity and mythic notions of destiny, alongside histories of Germany, philosophical texts, and cultural writings that reinforced a sense of civilisational struggle. Works of popular fiction, operatic libretti, and architectural treatises also feature, underscoring Hitler’s fascination with art, culture, and symbolic grandeur.

His reading encompassed works on race and eugenics, ideological interpretations of history, and narratives of empire and decline - books that reveal how cultural heritage, scholarship, and political thought combined to furnish the intellectual scaffolding for the 20th century's most mythical figure.

What’s Covered in The Greatman’s Library: Hitler Collection

Nationalist & Völkisch Writings

• Pan-German tracts and racialist literature
• Writings promoting Germanic mythology and identity
• Popular nationalist pamphlets and manifestos

Historical & Political Works

• German histories from antiquity to the modern era
• Writings on imperial decline and renewal
• Accounts of great leaders and nation-building
• Political theory influential in Central Europe

Philosophy & Ideology

• Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in selective reading
• Anti-Semitic polemics and racial philosophy
• Texts on law, sovereignty, and the state
• Reactionary critiques of liberalism and democracy

Biology

• Eugenic theories and racial biology
• Writings on heredity, health, and “degeneration”
• Works linking science to national identity
• Popularised racial “research”

Art, Culture & Architecture

• Wagnerian operas and libretti
• Nineteenth-century romantic literature
• Studies of classical and monumental architecture
• Cultural texts emphasising tradition and myth

Military History & Strategy

• Campaign histories of Frederick the Great and Napoleon
• Accounts of German unification wars
• Strategic writings on mobilisation and total war
• Biographies of past commanders