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.
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.
By the middle of 1933 the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, led by Adolf Hitler. In six years Germany found itself radically reshaped and prepared for the war that began on September 1, 1939.
Adolf Hitler enlisted in the Bavarian Army in August 1914. He served with distinction in World War I and won both classes of the Iron Cross. His conversion from passive to pathological anti-Semitism began while invalided in Germany in 1916-17. It is no exaggeration to say that every military decision made by Hitler between 1939 and 1945 was in some way influenced or coloured by his experiences with the List Regiment between 1914 and 1918.
the plots, the assassins, and the dictator who cheated death
Moorhouse, Roger
2007
Examines the attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, profiles the various conspirators involved, and speculates about the potential global ramifications if one of the attempts had been successful.
Presents twenty-one primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1880 and 1900, including the partitioning of Africa at the 1885 Berlin conference, the birth of Adolf Hitler, and the discovery of x-rays, and includes a chronology and further reading list.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the social and political cataclysm that spread throughout Europe between 1914 and 1945; and describes how the world was changed by the events of two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.
