Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Power of Home 1
5. Part I
6. 1. Hitler Sets Up House: A Bachelor’s Domestic Turn after 1928 11
7. 2. How the Chancellor Lives: A New Regime for an Old Palace 24
8. 3. Cultivated Interiors: The 1935 Renovation of the Prince Regent Square Apartment 47
9. 4. From Haus Wachenfeld to the Berghof: The Domestic Face of Empire 68
10. 5. Gerdy Troost: Hitler’s Other Chosen Architect 107
11. Part II
12. 6. Campaign Politics and the Invention of the Private Hitler 149
13. 7. An Alpine Seduction: Propaganda and the Man on the Mountain 161
14. 8. The Squire of Berchtesgaden: The Making of a Myth in the Foreign Press 194
15. 9. War and the English-Language Media’s Reappraisal of the Domestic Hitler 221
16. 10. Secrets in the Cellar: Bombing, Looting, and the Reinvention of Hitler’s Domesticity 258
17. 11. “Adolf Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”: The Troublesome Afterlife of Hitler’s Homes 284
18. Notes 318
19. Works Cited 343
20. Index 359
21. Illustration Credits 372