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Hitler's Hangman

The Life of Heydrich

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Hitler's Hangman

Von: Robert Gerwarth
Gesprochen von: Napoleon Ryan
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Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany. He shouldered a major share of responsibility for some of the worst Nazi atrocities, and up to his assassination in Prague in 1942, he was widely seen as one of the most dangerous men in Nazi Germany.

Yet Heydrich has received remarkably modest attention in the extensive literature of the Third Reich. Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Heydrich's private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main Office. Fully exploring Heydrich's progression from a privileged middle-class youth to a rapacious mass murderer, Gerwarth sheds new light on the complexity of Heydrich's adult character, his motivations, the incremental steps that led to unimaginable atrocities, and the consequences of his murderous efforts toward recreating the entire ethnic makeup of Europe.

©2011 Robert Gerwarth (P)2016 Tantor Deutschland Europa Historisch Krieg & Militär Militär Neuere Zweiter Weltkrieg

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"This admirable biography makes plausible what actually happened and makes human what we might prefer to dismiss as monstrous." ( The Wall Street Journal)
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A great, well researched and narrated biography, that weaves together family stories, personal experiences and historical structural analysis. At some points towards the end, it sounds like a majoer History of the 3rd Reich and the Holocaust, but written with emphasis put on Heydrich's perspective and personal role, which make those histories much more understandable. It's terrifying and baffling, but indispensable.

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