Hitler's people : the faces of the Third Reich

Evans, Richard J., author.

Book

New York : Penguin Press, 2024.

©2024

xx, 598 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"Through a connected set of biographical portraits of Nazi leaders and followers that tracks power as it radiated out from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regime's leadership, one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question: How does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil"-- Dust jacket flap.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Friends and associates.

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- Biography.

Nazis -- Biography.

Biographies.

Faces of the Third Reich

Preface -- Prologue: The lady at the trial -- Part I: The leader. Introduction ; The dictator: Adolf Hitler -- Part II: The paladins. Introduction ; The 'iron man': Hermann Göring ; The propagandist: Joseph Goebbels ; The soldier: Ernst Röhm ; The policeman: Heinrich Himmler ; The diplomat: Joachim von Ribbentrop ; The philosopher: Alfred Rosenberg ; The architect: Albert Speer -- Part III: The enforcers. Introduction ; The deputy: Rudolf Hess ; The collaborator: Franz von Papen ; The 'worker': Robert Ley ; The schoolmaster: Julius Streicher ; The hangman: Reinhard Heydrich ; The bureaucrat: Adolf Eichmann ; The loudmouth: Hans Frank -- Part IV: The instruments. Introduction ; The general: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb ; The professional: Karl Brandt ; The killers: Paul Zapp and Egon Zill ; The 'witch' and the 'beast': Ilse Koch and Irma Grese ; The mother: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink ; The star: Leni Riefenstahl ; The denunciator: Luise Solmitz -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The lady on the train.

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