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Napoleon – Hitler, the improbable comparison
Author(s) : LENTZ Thierry
Thierry Lentz, in a paper originally presented at the 2011 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, takes a look at a particular branch of historiography that grew out of the comparative biography trend of the 1980s: the anachronistic comparison of Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler.
Napoleon – Hitler, the improbable comparison
A purely ideological interpretation of history can impel historians to form erroneous conclusions on the nature of regimes and historical fact.
The Napoleonic episode offers a case study.
Biography comparative hitler napoleon
For a long time, historians were unable or unwilling to avoid simplification. Two sides – those “against” and those “for” Napoleon – clashed on a sterile battlefield where ideological monocausality defined the wars fought by the various European powers.
It is thus that one school of history, in a rather authoritarian step, came to place the First Empi