Description |
xiii, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Adolf Hitler's path from men's hostel to Reich chancellery -- Practitioners and technicians of totalitarian rule -- Functionaries of totalitarian rule -- The face of the Third Reich: Attempt at summing up |
Summary |
In these profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis -- including Hermann Goring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Rohm, Hans Frank, 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 |
Notes |
A republication of the 1970 English-language ed |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-391) and index |
Subject |
Nazis -- Biography.
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National socialism.
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biography.
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Author |
Bullock, Michael, 1918-2008, translator
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LC no. |
98052305 |
ISBN |
9780306809156 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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030680915X (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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