The twentieth century was the most violent in recorded history. One hundred million people died during the century's wars and a quarter of a billion people were murdered by their own governments.
A study of the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from the initial electoral breakthrough in 1930, to the party's victory, over the weak Weimar regime, in 1933.
Hermann Goring was Adolph Hitler's right-hand man. As he rose to power though, he became increasingly disillusioned, withdrawing from the political scene to enjoy the pleasures of his life as a wealthy man. He was eventually shunned by Hitler and by the time he was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, he was alone and without allies. Before he could be hanged, he committed suicide in prison.
the epic true story of the man who almost killed Hitler
Ortner, Helmut
2012
Georg Elser was a carpenter living in Munich in the 1930's. He also worked in a watch factory. He opposed Hitler and everything he stood for and used his skills to assemble his own bomb detonator. He was successful and the bomb killed eight people but Hitler was not one of them. Elser was caught and sent to a concentration camp.
Otto Dietrich was a thirty-four year old journalist when he met Adolf Hitler in 1931. In 1933 he was invited to become Hitler's press chief. He accepted with the simple, uncritical conviction that Hitler was dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. After the end of the war and five months after Hitler's death, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write all that he had seen and heard during his twelve years of close association with Hitler. In 1948 he gave his memoir to someone he trusted requesting that it be published after his death. He died in 1952 at the age of fifty-five.
The final days of Adolf Hitler in his headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin, as World War II in Europe drew to a close. Interviews with fifty eyewitnesses have produced a portrait of a place and a time.
Late in 1945 Hugh Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence to investigate the conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler's last days. This book narrows the focus to the last ten days of Hitler's life, April 20-29, 1945, in the underground bunker in Berlin.
Examines Adolf Hitler's closest inner circle members individually and as a group and focuses on Hitler's three most important Nazi men: Goring, Goebbels, and Himmler, with a secondary inspection of Bormann, Speer, and Ribbentrop.
This book examines the different nature of the war on the Eastern and Western fronts; the disparate treatment afforded the two groups of POWs and civilians; and Hitler's scorched-earth policy.
