Originally published in 1953, this masterly study of Heinrich Himmler is a forceful, dispassionate analysis of a man who rose from obscure beginnings as an agricultural student to a position of almost absolute power, until, in the Nazi twilight, he challenged Hitler himself. Outwardly insignificant, diffident—possessing neither the flamboyance of Goering nor the incisiveness of Goebbels—Himmler, head of the dreaded Secret Police, yet made himself the man most feared in the Nazi hierarchy—and as much by his ‘friends’ as his enemies. Only when the incredible facts about Himmler’s extraordinary hold over his colleagues became known were the full depths of the infamy to which Nazism had brought Germany revealed. Based on journalist Willi Frischauer’s unique knowledge of the background and sequence of events which gave rise to the Hitler regime, he manages to unearth the evidence, building up, stone by stone, the mosaic of Himmler’s true portrait. A fully documented and unforgettable narrative.
In Twilight in Vienna, first published in its English translation in 1938, Austrian-British journalist Willi Frischauer examines the sociological aspects, the reign of poverty, the lack of jobs, the morass of debt and financial chaos, and the lust for luxurious indulgence— all of which led up to revolutionary ideas, militarization, and finally a reactionary government. Frischauer addresses the decline of moral values and the prevalence of predatory love—a crime wave extending into all spheres. The final chapters deal with Dollfuss' and Schuschnigg's fight against dictatorship. Drawing on a vast amount of material, cases and documentation, the book paints a tragic picture of the decline of a great country. “A good first hand reportorial job, written with emotion [...], and giving an inside picture of the conditions and mores of Austria.”—Kirkus Review
Conspirator against Hitler, and postwar Chief of West German Intelligence, Otto John baffled the world when he "e;disappeared"e; from West Germany and emerged in Communist East Germany. His equally mysterious return to the West, and his controversial trial, posed the question: Was Otto John a criminal and a traitor, or a hero and martyr?
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