Hitlers Engineers

Author : Blaine Taylor
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149784
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Engineers written by Blaine Taylor and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intriguing account of two of Nazi Germany’s top architects” and how their work prolonged the war for months—includes hundreds of photos (WWII History). A Selection of the Military Book Club. While Nazi Germany’s temporary ascendancy owed much to military skill, the talent of its engineers not only buoyed the regime but allowed it to survive longer than would normally be expected. This unique work focusing on Fritz Todt and Albert Speer is based on many previously unpublished photographs and artwork from captured Nazi records. Todt was the brilliant builder of the world’s first superhighway system, the Autobahn, and the architect of the German West Wall, the Siegfried Line, that predated the later Atlantic and East Walls. The builder of each of the wartime “Führer Headquarters,” as well as the submarine pens, Todt was killed in a still-mysterious airplane crash that may well have been a Nazi death plot, though he was given a state funeral by Hitler. Todt was succeeded as German Minister of Armaments and War Production by the Führer’s longtime personal architect, Albert Speer, who was described by the Allies after the war as having prolonged the conflict by at least a year. Called a genius by Hitler, Speer designed and built the prewar Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress rally stands and buildings. More importantly, amid the constant rain of Allied bombs and the Soviet advances from the East, Speer managed to keep the German industrial machine running until the spring of 1945, though it was driven ever further underground. He also allocated resources to fortifications and counterattacks, like the V-missile installations, against both West and East, in attempts to stave off defeat. Convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg, Speer served twenty years at Spandau Prison and remained a Nazi apologist who died in London in 1981 on the anniversary of the German invasion of Poland. Together, Todt and Speer were the pillars that propped up the Third Reich through the vicissitudes of battlefield fortune. With over three hundred photographs, this is the first work that examines their role in history’s most terrible war.

Author : Eric Kurlander
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300190379
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Monsters written by Eric Kurlander and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review

Author : Eric Lichtblau
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547669224
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazis Next Door written by Eric Lichtblau and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newsweek Best Book of the Year: “Captivating . . . rooted in first-rate research” (The New York Times Book Review). In this New York Times bestseller, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the US government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years after their arrival did private sleuths and government prosecutors begin trying to identify the hidden Nazis. Now, relying on a trove of newly disclosed documents and scores of interviews, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau reveals this little-known and “disturbing” chapter of postwar history (Salon).

Author : Richard C. Anderson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811742717
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cracking Hitler's Atlantic Wall written by Richard C. Anderson and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshingly different perspective on the momentous events of D-Day.

Author : John Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142004804
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Scientists written by John Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Reich A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.

Author : Gerald Fleming
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520060227
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler and the Final Solution written by Gerald Fleming and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-02-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. vii-xxxiii contain Friedländer's introduction, which did not appear in the original German edition.

Author : Paul Schilperoord
Publisher : Rvp Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781614122036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz written by Paul Schilperoord and published by Rvp Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maika¤fer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car-their production model even ended up bearing the same nickname. The Beetle incorporated many of the features of Ganz's original Maika¤fer, yet until recently Ganz received no recognition for his pioneering work. The Nazis did all they could to keep the Jewish godfather of the German compact car out of the history books. Now Paul Schilperoord sets the record straight. Josef Ganz was hunted by the Nazis, even beyond Germany's borders, and narrowly escaped assassination. He was imprisoned by the Gestapo until an influential friend with connections to Gaoring helped secure his release. Soon afterward, he was forced to flee Germany, while Porsche, using many of his groundbreaking ideas, created the Volkswagen for Hitler. After the war, Ganz moved to Australia, where he died in 1967.

Author : Gwilym Roberts
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849953863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Hitler's Downfall written by Gwilym Roberts and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An appreciation of the remarkable ingenuity and invention of numerous scientists and engineers in advancing the war effort - Provides descriptions of the machines, weapons and structures that enabled the Allies to achieve victory in World War II- Biographical accounts of the principal scientists and engineers involved

Author : Maximillien De Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304711854
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VOL.2; THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE PLANNED ESCAPE OF HITLER. THE NAZI-SPAIN-ARGENTINA COVERUP. written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two from a set of two volumes (Set: Approx. 650 pages with hundreds of photos and documents). Published by Times Square Press, http: //www.timessquarepress.com/ New York. Author's website: www.maximilliendelafayettebibliography.com This book is THE most authoritative, documented and convincing book on Hitler's escape from Berlin to Argentina. Packed with testimonies, affidavits and statements by insiders, the bunker's survivors and American, Russian and French intelligence agents. Astonishing revelations and powerful testimonies which will convince even the most ardent skeptics that indeed Hitler escaped from his bunker, and lived in Argentina with his SS entourage until his death in 1965.

Author : Maximillien de lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678105619
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LAST 20 YEARS OF HITLER IN ARGENTINA AND HIS VISITORS FROM 1945 TO 1965 written by Maximillien de lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAST 20 YEARS OF HITLER IN ARGENTINA AND HIS VISITORS FROM 1945 TO 1965. Two volumes in one This documented book is based upon: Military Interrogations: