Dewey Decimal943.0860922
Table Of ContentIntroduction Martin Bormann Adolf Hitler Hitler's Women: Unity Mitford; Angela (Geli) Raubal Eva Braun Adolf Eichmann Godfathers of Nazism: Drexler, Feder and Harrer; Dietrich Eckart Hermann Goering Albert Goering Reinhard Heydrich Josef Goebbels Magda Goebbels Amon Goeth Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hoess Josef Mengele Leni Riefenstahl Ernst Roehm Hjalmar Schacht Albert Speer Franz Stangl Rudolf Hess Wilhelm Keitel Alfred Rosenberg Julius Streicher Timeline Index Picture credits
SynopsisThe Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Now author Paul Roland turns the tables with this brilliant expos - a fascinating psychological profile of the most infamous Nazis, including Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Eva Braun, Jesef Mengele and many more. Hitler and His Inner Circle provides a fresh approach to World War II history. Packed with fascinating facts and unexpected details based on files kept by the Allies. Examples include: - Adolf Hitler had 'terrible' table manners, gorged on cake in his bunker and Allied psychologists considered him a neurotic psychopath. - When Hermann Goering surrendered to the Americans, he had a gold-plated revolver and a stash of drugs in his luggage. - Franz Stangl loved his job so much (as commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka concentration camps) that he tried to make his places of work seem as normal as he could by planting flowers and shrubs everywhere and creating a fake railway station with fake painted clocks to welcome new arrivals. Accompanied by over 50 images, this concise yet revealing chronicle of Hitler's henchmen is presented in a fresh and accessible way., How was a devout Catholic like Franz Stangl, commandant of death camps Sobibor and Treblinka, able to live a normal life with his beloved family while sending thousands of innocent men, women, and children to the gas chambers? What drove Julius Streicher, editor of the journal Der Stüfmer, to promote the rabidly anti-Semitic ideas that he published? And how did educated and cultured men such as Albert Speen and Reinhard Heydrich justify Nazi activities such as the liquidation of the ghettoes and the slave labour programme which saw so many starved, beaten, and worked to death? Hitler and his Inner Circle presents a series of fascinating psychological profiles of Hitler and those within his immediate orbit, along with their most devoted disciples. It attempts to discover whether these men - and a few women - had fatal character flaws that made them commit their terrible crimes against humanity. The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Here author Paul Roland turns the tables with this intriguing expose. Book jacket.