| Description |
xiii, 402 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Pelican books |
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Pelican book.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Adolf Hitler's path from men's hostel to Reich Chancellery. 1. The incubation period -- 2. The drummer -- 3. The Führer -- 4. The Reich chancellor -- 5. Victor and vanquished -- Pt. 2. Practitioners and technicians of totalitarian rule. Hermann Göring: number two -- Joseph Goebbels: 'man the beast" -- Reinhard Heydrich: the successor -- Heinrich Himmler: petty bourgeois and grand inquisitor -- Martin Bormann: the brown eminence -- Ernst Röhm and the lost generation -- Pt. 3. Functionaries of totalitarian rule. Franz von Papen and the conservative collaboration -- Alfred Rosenberg: the forgotten disciple -- Joachim von Ribbentrop and the degradation of diplomacy -- Rudolph 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 'misssion 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 Höss: the man from the crowd -- Pt. 4. The face of the Third Reich: attempt at a summing up |
| Analysis |
Germany, 1933-1945 Biographies |
| Notes |
Originally published as Das Gesicht des Dritten Reiches. Munchen, R. Piper, 1963 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 386-391 |
| Subject |
National socialism.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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Germany -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115144
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Bullock, Michael, 1918-2008.
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| LC no. |
71464855 |
| ISBN |
0297179497 |
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