Tapping Hitler S Generals

Author : Sönke Neitzel
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830558

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Tapping Hitler's Generals by Sönke Neitzel Pdf

These transcripts of wiretapped conversations between Nazi officers reveal “a fascinating—and chilling—insight into the German view of the war” (Financial Times). Between 1939 and 1942, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence created a number of POW interrogation camps in and around London where they secretly recorded private conversations between senior German staff officers. In this extraordinary work, historian Sonke Neitzel examines these transcripts in depth and presents the private thoughts, opinions, and secrets of Nazi officers during the Second World War. These transcripts address important questions regarding the officers’ attitudes towards the German leadership and Nazi policies: How did the German generals judge the overall war situation? From what date did they consider it lost? How did they react to the attempt on Hitler’s life in July 1944? What knowledge did they have of the atrocities? By turns insightful and horrifying, this unprecedented research is a must for any serious scholar of the period. “A goldmine of information about what the German High Command privately thought of the war, Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and each other.” —Daily Mail

Author : Shelford Bidwell
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 051720164X

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Hitler's Generals by Shelford Bidwell Pdf

Hitler's Generals is an analysis of the generalship, in both the military and political fields, of the men who took the Thrid Reich to victory against Poland, France and the Low Countries, and almost to victory against Soviet Russia. In the later stages of World War II they attempted with courage and skill to stress the great Allied advances from the East and from the West.

Author : Richard Humble
Publisher : London : A. Barker
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080889293

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Hitler's Generals by Richard Humble Pdf

Det Tredie Rige; Tyske Flåde; Luftwaffe; von Rundstedt; Rommel; von Reichenau; Mussolini; von Paulus; Model; von Manstein; von Kluge; Kesselring; von Kleist; Keitel; Franz Halder; Guderian; Göring; von Brauchitsch; von Bock; Hermann Hoth; Operation Overlord, Normandiet; Juli-komplottet; Attentatforsøg;

Author : Correlli Barnett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0802139949

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Hitler's Generals by Correlli Barnett Pdf

Distinguished historian Barnett has gathered together an outstanding team of military historians to write about the characters and careers of 26 generals of the Third Reich.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0890090491

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Hitler's Generals and Their Battles by Anonim Pdf

Describes the campaigns and battles involving Nazi generals and field marshals, including Rommel, Kesselring, Model, and Keitel, and discusses the military plot to overthrow Hitler

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Generals
ISBN : OCLC:12842694

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Hitler's Generals and Their Battles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sönke Neitzel,Harald Welzer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1849839484

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Soldaten by Sönke Neitzel,Harald Welzer Pdf

A landmark book based on secretly recorded conversations between German soldiers in the Second World War.

Author : Thomas Childers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451651157

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The Third Reich by Thomas Childers Pdf

“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II. In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Press), Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following. As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. Between 1924 and 1929, Hitler and his party languished in obscurity on the radical fringes of German politics, but the onset of the Great Depression gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. Hitler blamed Germany’s misery on the victorious allies, the Marxists, the Jews, and big business—and the political parties that represented them. By 1932 the Nazis had become the largest political party in Germany, and within six months they transformed a dysfunctional democracy into a totalitarian state and began the inexorable march to World War II and the Holocaust. It is these fraught times that Childers brings to life: the Nazis’ unlikely rise and how they consolidated their power once they achieved it. Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich is a “powerful…reminder of what happens when power goes unchecked” (San Francisco Book Review). This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Author : Derek R. Mallett
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813142531

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Hitler's Generals in America by Derek R. Mallett Pdf

Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps. Less is known, however, about the Germans captured and held in captivity on U.S. soil during the war. In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946. During the early years of the war, British officers spied on the German officers in their custody, housing them in elegant estates separate from enlisted soldiers, providing them with servants and cooks, and sometimes becoming their confidants in order to obtain intelligence. The Americans, on the other hand, lacked the class awareness shared by British and German officers. They ignored their German general officer prisoners, refusing them any special treatment. By the end of the war, however, the United States had begun to envision itself as a world power rather than one of several allies providing aid during wartime. Mallett demonstrates how a growing admiration for the German officers' prowess and military traditions, coupled with postwar anxiety about Soviet intentions, drove Washington to collaborate with many Wehrmacht general officers. Drawing on newly available sources, this intriguing book vividly demonstrates how Americans undertook the complex process of reconceptualizing Germans -- even Nazi generals -- as allies against what they perceived as their new enemy, the Soviet Union.

Author : Andrew Nagorski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439191026

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Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski Pdf

“Hitlerland is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. Readers new to this story will find it fascinating” (The Washington Post). Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military officers, journalists, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. “Engaging if chilling…a broader look at Americans who had a ringside seat to Hitler’s rise” (USA TODAY), Hitlerland offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists—and a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era.

Author : David Stahel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009282819

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Hitler's Panzer Generals by David Stahel Pdf

A comparative biography of four of Germany's leading panzer commanders on the eastern front based on their private wartime letters.

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007457502

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Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson Pdf

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.

Author : Robert J. Hanyok
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486310442

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Eavesdropping on Hell by Robert J. Hanyok Pdf

This recent government publication investigates an area often overlooked by historians: the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. A guide for researchers rather than a narrative study, it explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. In addition, it summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years and deals at length with the fascinating question of how information about the Holocaust first reached the West. The guide begins with brief summaries of the history of anti-Semitism in the West and early Nazi policies in Germany. An overview of the Allies' system of gathering communications intelligence follows, along with a list of American and British sources of cryptologic records. A concise review of communications intelligence notes items of particular relevance to the Holocaust's historical narrative, and the book concludes with observations on cryptology and the Holocaust. Numerous photographs illuminate the text.

Author : Sonke Neitzel,Harald Welzer
Publisher : Signal
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771051067

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Soldiers by Sonke Neitzel,Harald Welzer Pdf

On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general -- almost all of whom had insisted on their own honourable behaviour during the war. Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations -- and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them -- from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstucting the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience.

Author : Sandra Barkhof,Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317961864

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War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century by Sandra Barkhof,Angela K. Smith Pdf

Human displacement has always been a consequence of war, written into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However, the global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale, as the two World Wars shifted participants around the globe. Although driven by political disputes between European powers, the consequences of Empire ensured that Europe could not contain them. Soldiers traversed continents, and civilians often followed them, or found themselves living in territories ruled by unexpected invaders. Both wars saw fighting in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, and few nations remained neutral. Both wars saw the mass upheaval of civilian populations as a consequence of the fighting. Displacements were geographical, cultural, and psychological; they were based on nationality, sex/gender or age. They produced an astonishing range of human experience, recorded by the participants in different ways. This book brings together a collection of inter-disciplinary works by scholars who are currently producing some of the most innovative and influential work on the subject of displacement in war, in order to share their knowledge and interpretations of historical and literary sources. The collection unites historians and literary scholars in addressing the issues of war and displacement from multiple angles. Contributors draw on a wealth of primary source materials and resources including archives from across the world, military records, medical records, films, memoirs, diaries and letters, both published and private, and fictional interpretations of experience.