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Hitler's Court: The Inner Circle of the Third Reich and After (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526790705)
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Heike B. Gtemaker
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x"...a fascinating look at the levers and layers of power in the Third Reich." -- Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
Hitler was not a lonely, aloof dictator. Throughout his rise in the NSDAP, he gathered a loyal circle around him, which later took on the features of a regular court, and was surrounded by people who celebrated, flattered and intrigued him.
Who belonged to this inner circle around Hitler? What function did this court fulfill? And how did it influence the perception of history after 1945? Using previously unknown sources, Heike Gtemaker explores Hitler's private environment and shows how this inner circle made him who he was.
Biographies of Hitler often concentrate on his obsession with self-image: "If you subtract what politics is about him, little or nothing remains," said Ian Kershaw, and Joachim Fest asserted: "He did not have a private life." For Alan Bullock the "F?rer" was an "uprooted man without a home or family". Hitler's inner circle, the Berghof Society, was his private retreat. But the court was more than that. It provided him with the support he needed to be able to take on the role of "F?rer" at all, while at the same time allowing him to use its members as political front men. Most of all, it represented a conspiratorial community whose lowest common denominator was anti-Semitism.
In this book, Heike Gtemaker asks new questions about the truth behind Hitler's inner circle and, for the first time, also examines the "circle without leaders"; the networking of the inner circle after 1945.
Author: Heike B. Gtemaker
ISBN-10: 152679070X
ISBN-13: 9781526790705
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
Hitler was not a lonely, aloof dictator. Throughout his rise in the NSDAP, he gathered a loyal circle around him, which later took on the features of a regular court, and was surrounded by people who celebrated, flattered and intrigued him.
Who belonged to this inner circle around Hitler? What function did this court fulfill? And how did it influence the perception of history after 1945? Using previously unknown sources, Heike Gtemaker explores Hitler's private environment and shows how this inner circle made him who he was.
Biographies of Hitler often concentrate on his obsession with self-image: "If you subtract what politics is about him, little or nothing remains," said Ian Kershaw, and Joachim Fest asserted: "He did not have a private life." For Alan Bullock the "F?rer" was an "uprooted man without a home or family". Hitler's inner circle, the Berghof Society, was his private retreat. But the court was more than that. It provided him with the support he needed to be able to take on the role of "F?rer" at all, while at the same time allowing him to use its members as political front men. Most of all, it represented a conspiratorial community whose lowest common denominator was anti-Semitism.
In this book, Heike Gtemaker asks new questions about the truth behind Hitler's inner circle and, for the first time, also examines the "circle without leaders"; the networking of the inner circle after 1945.
Author: Heike B. Gtemaker
ISBN-10: 152679070X
ISBN-13: 9781526790705
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
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