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Book SynopsisIn these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis,including Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Röhm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Höss, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself. He also analyzes the archetypal roles of the officer corps, intellectuals, and women. This work provides fresh perspectives into how dysfunctional psyches, personal ambitions, and ruthless rivalries impacted the creation and evolution of Hitler''s Third Reich.
Table of Contents* Foreword * Pt. Adolf Hitler's Path from Men's Hostel to Reich Chancellery * The Incubation Period * The Drummer * The Fuhrer * The Reich Chancellor * Victor and Vanquished * Pt. Practitioners and Technicians of Totalitarian Rule * Hermann Goring - Number Two * Joseph Goebbels: 'Man the Beast' * Reinhard Heydrich - The Successor * Heinrich Himmler - Petty Bourgeois and Grand Inquisitor * Martin Bormann - The Brown Eminence * Ernst Rohm and the Lost Generation * Pt. Functionaries of Totalitarian Rule * Franz von Papen and the Conservative Collaboration * Alfred Rosenberg - The Forgotten Disciple * Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Degradation of Diplomacy * Rudolf Hess: The Embarrassment of Freedom * Albert Speer and the Immorality of the Technicians * Hans Frank - Imitation of a Man of Violence * Baldur von Schirach and the 'Mission of the Younger Generation' * General von X: Behaviour and Role of the Officer Corps in the Third Reich * 'Professor NSDAP': The Intellectuals and National Socialism * German Wife and Mother: The Role of Women in the Third Reich * Rudolf Hoss - The Man from the Crowd * Pt. The Face of the Third Reich: Attempt at a Summing Up * Notes * Bibliography * Index
