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From award-winning historian Richard Overy, Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite is the harrowing true story of the interviews with Nazi masterminds in the aftermath of the Second World War. How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did? What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of the Fuhrer? In 1945, as the Nazi regime collapsed, its remaining leaders were imprisoned and interrogated for months before the Nuremberg Trials. In this searing work Richard Overy reveals the original transcripts of these little-known interviews with key Nazis: the brutal and unrepentant Goering, the selective amnesiac Hess, the deliberately evasive Ribbentrop, the courteous Speer and the suicidal Ley. For the first time, they were forced to examine their actions and speak about the unspeakable. The result is an unprecedented and shocking insight into Hitler's henchmen. 'A chilling glimpse into the minds of Hitler's chief lieutenants'   J.G. Ballard, New Statesman Books of the Year 'Enthralling ... I know of no better book to explain what really motivated the elite of the Third Reich'   Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable and gripping ... the interrogations, along with Overy's incisive commentary, throw light on the dejected cast who had once happily danced to Hitler's tune'   David Stafford, The Times 'Fascinating ... reveals the mindset of Hitler's inner circle'   Ian Kershaw, Sunday Telegraph Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War, particularly in his books 1939 - Countdown to War, Why the Allies Won, Russia's War and The Morbid Age. Overy's The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.

Table of Contents:
Perspectives on the Fuehrer: "the driving force", Albert Speer; Hitler's women, Karl Brandt; the new feudalism, Hans Lammers; Hitler the warlord, Alfred Jodl. "The world's worst criminal" - Goering in the Third Reich: a souvenir from Monte Cassino, Hermann Goering; the Commander-in-Chief, Hermann Goering; conquest by telephone, Hermann Goering; vote "no" if you dare, Albert Goering. Waging war: Ribbentrop, Hitler and war, Joachim von Ribbentrop; Hitler's "chess game of power politics", Albert Speer; OKW at war, Wilhelm Keitel. Genocide: the Fuehrer order, Dieter Wisliceny; a morbid accounting, Dieter Wisliceny, "incredible things at Auschwitz", Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak; a doctor at Dachau, Franz Blaha; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rudolf Hoess; demarcation dispute, Otto Moll and Rudolf Hoess. The Hess case: "I have lost my memory", Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering; the young ladies, Rudolf Hess, Ingeborg Sperr and Hildgarde Fath; "the science of psychiatry is sound", Rudolf Hess. The von Papen case - resistance and compliance: "a way out of the mess" - von Papen and Hitler in 1933, Franz von Papen; "this problem of responsibility", Franz von Papen. Albert Speer - true confessions?: Speer the expert, Albert Speer; sixty acts of treason, Albert Speer; Speer the assassin, Dietrich Stahl; special pleading, Albert Speer; "not a concern of mine", Albert Speer. Robert Ley - profile of a suicide: the testament of Robert Ley, Robert Ley; Ley's dialogue with the dead, Robert Ley; confessions of an anti-semite, Robert Ley. Obeying orders - complicity and denial: "not a dangerous person", Wilhelm Frick; "talking in a dream", Joachim von Ribbentrop; "very undesirable activities", Heinz Guderian. Germany's future: rebuilding the Reich, Richard Ley; Schachts new Germany, Hjalmar Schacht.

About the Author :
Richard Overy is Professor of History at King's College London. His previous books include WHY THE ALLIES WON, RUSSIA'S WAR and THE BATTLE.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780140284546
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 145 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0140284540
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2002
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 672
  • Sub Title: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite
  • Width: 129 mm


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