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Goering (1950)
also published as The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering (1953)
Willi Frischauer's brilliant analysis of this many-sided and complex
personality revealed for the first time the authentic inner story of the man
who has been called the Nazi Nero. Frischauer had unrivalled access to the
people close to Goering – talking at length with Goering's widow, his personal
valet, his closest friend and his Chief of Staff – as well as expert knowledge
of the Nazi regime. The book tells of the intrigues within the Nazi Party, of
how Goering simultaneously built up the Luftwaffe and feathered his own nest by
investing in aircraft companies – of the dramatic Nuremberg trial and the
mystery surrounding his suicide. It also tells how Goering, the much decorated
fighter ace of the First World War Richthoven Circus, became Fokker's
commercial traveller in Sweden – of his lasting infatuation for his first wife
Karin, to whose memory he dedicated his fantastic luxury palace, ‘Karinhall’.
You are shown Goering the family man and self-styled model of chivalry who
nevertheless signed documents sending thousands to slavery – Goering the
playboy and drug addict – Goering the master pirate who ransacked Europe's art
galleries and museums to satisfy his greed for works of art. Frischauer
provides a fair, unbiased, factual summing-up, packed with detail, charged with
such drama and changing human fortune as few lives can have rivalled.
ISBN: 978-1-78301-221-3
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Himmler: The Evil Genius of the Third
Reich (1953)
This compelling 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
The book, the first
complete biography of Himmler, from birth to death, was based on Frischauer’s
unique knowledge of the background and sequence of events which gave rise to
the Hitler regime. In its preparation, the author had access to much hitherto
unpublished material and, in quest of new facts to throw light on the enigma of
Himmler's character and personality, travelled extensively in Germany, Austria
and other countries interviewing people who, like Himmler's widow, his brother
and senior S.S. officers, knew him most intimately. He unearthed the evidence,
building up, stone by stone, the mosaic of Himmler’s true portrait. How the
baleful leader of the Gestapo, who, in the final analysis, turned out to be ‘a
ridiculous mouse’, nevertheless was able to bring forth a mountain of misery
without counterpart in modern history was for the first time revealed by Willi
Frischauer in this fully documented and unforgettable narrative.
ISBN: 978-1-78301-254-1
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The Man Who Came Back: The Story of Otto
John (1958)
also published as Berlin
Betrayal: The Story of Otto John (1961)
The Man Who Came Back
reads like a modern political thriller. This astonishing – but true – story not
only relates the dramatic details of John’s youthful opposition against the
Nazis, but also gives a full account of his part in the great German wartime
conspiracy and bomb plot against Hitler in July 1944. The description of John’s
hair’s-breadth escape to Britain, and his work for the British Black Propaganda
organization, threw light for the first time on many well-kept war secrets.
Returning to his defeated and divided Fatherland as Chief of
West German Intelligence, John was soon involved in the frantic underground
warfare of rival espionage organizations; he was also caught up in the
East–West conflict of conscience which harassed many of his compatriots. His
mysterious ‘disappearance’ from West Germany and emergence in Communist East
Germany, his equally baffling return to the West, and his controversial trial,
coincided with important stages in Germany's postwar development.
Was Otto John a criminal and a traitor, or a hero and
martyr? That is the question which this exciting book probes. It was a question
that concerned not only the fate of one man but the future of Germany, Europe,
and, perhaps, the peace of the world.
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The Altmark Affair (with Robert Jackson, 1955)
also
published as
The Navy's Here: The Story of the ‘Altmark’ Affair and
the Battle of the River Plate (1955)
Available to download (in a flawed edition, not from Unmaterial Books)
FREE
from archive.org
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