Göbbels, Himmler and Göring : the unholy trinity /
This book contains the biographies of Hitler's three henchmen, Göbbels, Himmler and Göring, the longest loyal servants of Hitler. It utilises both older biographies, because of their insights, and more recent scholarly publications, as well as diaries (such as those of Göbbels and Ciano). The v...
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[Newcastle upon Tyne, UK] :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Time Line; Introductory Thoughts; Why the Book?; The Biographers; Professor Stephen Roberts 1937; Military Contribution and the Unholy Trinity; Gallows Humour; Part One: Paul Josef Göbbels; Chapter One; His Youth; From Literature to Politics; Hitler's Influence 1925-26; Göbbels in Berlin 1926-1931; Göbbels and Women; Grasping Power 1931-1933; Göbbels at this juncture; Chapter Two; Propaganda-Background; Radio; Theatres; Film Industry; Literature; Journalists; Museums, Art, and Music; Foreign Press; Summary; Chapter Three; Foreign Propaganda; Total Power
- Hindenburg DiesAnti-Semitism; Anti-Church; Chapter Four; Göbbels Overseas; The Saar and Danzig; Olympics; Blomberg and Fritsch; Austrian Putsch; Sudetenland; Poland 1939; Göbbels at this Juncture; Chapter Five; Introduction; Nov 8th Assassination Attempt; Scandinavia; France; Towards Russia; Hess and Other Problems; Turning Points; Stalingrad; Bombing Raids; Chapter Six; July 20th Plot; Retaliation Propaganda; Total War; Political Solution; Göbbels at this juncture; The Bunker; Part Two: Heinrich Himmler; Chapter One; Youth 1900-1923; Into Politics 1923-9; Chapter Two; SS Early Days 1929-33
- Night of the Long Knives 1934Vienna Putsch 1934; Concentration Camps; Centralising the Police; Perceived Enemies of the Reich; Nature of SS; SS Rites, Rituals and Runes; Himmler the Carer for the SS; Waffen-SS 1934-5; Himmler in the Context of the Reich; Himmler at this Juncture; Chapter Three; Early Expansion and Consequences; Austria-Czechoslovakia 1937-39; Sub-Human Behaviour; Some Dissent; Chapter Four; Poland; a Racial War 1939; Police Tyranny in the Early War Years; Towards the West; Himmler spreads his Tentacles; After France and Before Russia; Eastwards and Organised Killing
- Systematic Murder and Germanic Blood-linesWaffen-SS; Chapter Five; The War Turns; Emerging Problems; Possible anti-Hitler Resistance; Minister of Interior and Armaments; The Barbarity Increases; Maniacal Machinations; The Frenetic Last Year; July 20th Plot; The Reserve Army Commander; Warsaw; Volkssturm; In Touch with the Enemy; Last Battles; Last Contacts with the Enemy; Final Days; Part Three: Hermann Wilhelm Göring; Chapter One; Family; The Great War; Postwar Abroad; Carin; Chapter Two; Göring Meets Hitler; The Putsch; Back in Germany 1927; Rise to Power in early 1930s
- Reichstag Fire and Final PowerGöring at this juncture; Chapter Three; Embryonic Luftwaffe; Night of the Long Knives; Göring the Nazi; Göring the Economist; Nazi Economics in Europe; Economics and the War-Machine; Göring the Diplomat; Austria; Czechoslovakia; Preparing for Poland; Chapter Four; Overview of War; Göring and Overview of the Luftwaffe; Invasion of Poland; Hitler turns to the West; The Russian War and Göring's Descent; The Art Man; The Collapse of 1944; The Steady Decline of Göring; The End Days of the Reich; Nuremberg; Part Four: Final Observations
