Inside The Third Reich

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Inside The Third Reich
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Albert Speer
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:832
Dimensions(mm): Height 135,Width 200
Category/GenreEuropean history
Biographies: Historical, Political and Military
Second world war
ISBN/Barcode 9781842127353
ClassificationsDewey:943.086092
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 31

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 20 August 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses, even by implication, and is unrelenting toward himself and his associates...Speer's full-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Fuhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magic.' NEW YORK TIMES.

Author Biography

Albert Speer was unique in the Third Reich. An intellectual architect, he was befriended by Hitler in 1933 and for the next 12 years they maintained one of the most powerful and extraordinary relationships in the Nazi hierarchy. In 1942 Speer was appointed Armaments Minister and became second only to Hitler himself as a power on the home front. But in 1945, Speer defied Hitler's scorched earth policy and began to plan his assassination. At Nuremberg he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.