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Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell And Back In Nazi Germany And Stalin's Russia (2003) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
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- Sayer, Ian Keith Terence
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- A noted World War II historian and one of the world’s leading experts on Third Reich documentation. He is co-author of the international best seller Nazi Gold, The Story of the World’s Greatest Robbery and remains the only private individual to have been responsible for the location and restitution of looted Nazi gold. He has also tracked down a number of Nazi war criminals including SS General Wilhelm Mohnke whose wartime activities were subsequently investigated by the British, Canadian, American and German governments.
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Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected… door Ian Sayer
Not really a review, but Observations and Reminiscences in my Comments.
I have been studying this book and the depth of detail is somewhat overwhelming.
The book begins with a detailing of the history of the Prominenten ( 139 high profile prisoners Hitler ordered the SS to take from the camps) and their locations before they were used as bargaining chips.
Sayer and Dronfield team together to bring us a novel of connections and to make us witness to many things, among them are the interactions between the Prominenten and the SS / SD.
The characters and locations are skillfully described and cleverly interlinked against the backdrop of World War II.
Yes, there was some leniency by the SS, but if the thought of a very possible execution didn't make the Prominenten think twice, I'm sure the idea of an arthropod giving them an infection that caused internal bleeding would.
Neither thought was inescapable due to fact guards with machine pistols lined the roads and it was well known there were areas surrounded with bleak barbed-wired enclosures, riddled with poor sanitation, and close human contact.
In closing, I felt this was a well-researched book which depicted the inconceivable life of the Prominenten, who were heralded by peasants, helped by partisans and in the days after the official surrender, rescued by US forces.
I received a copy of this book through the generosity of Quinn Fariel/ Marketing Manager/ Hachette Books… (meer)
The book begins with a detailing of the history of the Prominenten ( 139 high profile prisoners Hitler ordered the SS to take from the camps) and their locations before they were used as bargaining chips.
Sayer and Dronfield team together to bring us a novel of connections and to make us witness to many things, among them are the interactions between the Prominenten and the SS / SD.
The characters and locations are skillfully described and cleverly interlinked against the backdrop of World War II.
Yes, there was some leniency by the SS, but if the thought of a very possible execution didn't make the Prominenten think twice, I'm sure the idea of an arthropod giving them an infection that caused internal bleeding would.
Neither thought was inescapable due to fact guards with machine pistols lined the roads and it was well known there were areas surrounded with bleak barbed-wired enclosures, riddled with poor sanitation, and close human contact.
In closing, I felt this was a well-researched book which depicted the inconceivable life of the Prominenten, who were heralded by peasants, helped by partisans and in the days after the official surrender, rescued by US forces.
I received a copy of this book through the generosity of Quinn Fariel/ Marketing Manager/ Hachette Books… (meer)
Il libro, basato su una pericolosa inchiesta che gli autori hanno condotto in prima persona, del furto delle riserve d'oro e di valuta straniera della Germania nazista, scomparso durante il trasporto, dopo la caduta del nazismo nel 1945.
Not exactly a book many people would be interested in. I was, because my father was pressed into CIC service after commanding an anti-aircraft battery in the U.S. Ninth Army in early 1945. Just before the German surrender in May, he was tasked with maintaining a DP (displaced persons) camp of 600 people, tracking down Gestapo and SD agents, and governing 3 villages in central Germany. He never talked much about it, so I read this book to get a better feel for what it was like. Basically, the book is rather poorly written and depends on the authors' cobbling together CIC agent accounts and information from the National Archives. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of alternative histories on the subject.… (meer)
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