Record details

• ISBN: 0394734076
• ISBN: 9780394734071
• Physical Description: xiii, 402 pages. ; 25 cm
• Edition: [1st American edition]
• Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [1970]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Translation of Das Gesicht des Dritten Reiches.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: pages 386-391.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: Adolf Hitler's path from men's hostel to Reich chancellery -- The incubation period -- The drummer -- The Führer -- The Reich chancellor -- Victor and vanquished -- Part two: Practitioners and technicians of totalitarian rule -- Hermann Göring, number two -- Joseph Goebbels: 'man the beast' -- Reinhard Heydrich, the successor -- Heinrich Himmler, pretty bourgeois and grand inquisitor -- Martin Bormann, the brown eminence -- Ernst Röhm and the lost generation -- Part three: 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 Höss, the man from the crowd -- Part four: The face of the Third Reich: attempt at a summing up.

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Subject:

National socialism.
Germany > Biography.

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Biographies.