Outlaw Country
The Criminals
The Charges
Asking the Questions
The Absentees: Hitler, Himmler, Bormann
Selective Amnesia? The Case of Hess
The Helpful Speer
The Unrepentant Goering
The Limits of Responsibility: Strategies of Denial
Confessing to Genocide
"I hope they hang all": Final Retribution
PART II: INTERROGATIONS: THE TRANSCRIPTS
Notes on the Transcripts
Perspectives on the Fuehrer
Document 1: 'the driving force' [Albert Speer]
Document 2: Hitler's Women [Karl Brandt]
Document 3: The New Feudalism [Hans Lammers]
Document 4: Hitler the Warlord [Alfred Jodl]
"The world's worst criminal": Goering in the Third Reich
Document 5: A Souvenir from Monte Cassino [Hermann Goering]
Document 6: The Commander-in-Chief [Hermann Goering]
Document 7: Conquest by Telephone [Hermann Goering]
Document 7b: Vote "No" if you dare [Albert Goering]
Waging War
Document 8: Ribbentrop, Hitler and War [Joachim von Ribbentrop]
Document 9: Hitler's "chess game of power politics" [Albert Speer]
Document 10: OKW at War [Wilhelm Keitel]
Genocide
Document 11: The Fuehrer Order [Dieter Wisliceny]
Document 12: A Morbid Accounting [Dieter Wisliceny]
Document 13: "incredible things at Auschwitz" [Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak]
Document 14: A Doctor at Dachau [Franz Blaha]
Document 15: Auschwitz-Birkenau [Rudolf Hoess]
Document 16: Demarcation Dispute [Otto Moll and Rudolf Hoess]
The Hess Case
Document 17: "I have lost my memory" [Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering]
Document 18: The Young Ladies [Rudolf Hess, Ingeborg Sperr and Hildegarde Fath]
Document 19: "the science of psychiatry is sound" [Rudolf Hess]
The von Papen Case: Resistance and Compliance
Document 22: Speer the Expert [Albert Speer]
Document 23: Sixty Acts of Treason [Albert Speer]
Document 24: Speer the Assassin [Dietrich Stahl]
Document 25: Special Pleading [Albert Speer]
Document 26: "not a concern of mine" [Albert Speer]
Robert Ley: Profile of a Suicide
Document 27: The Testament of Robert Ley [Robert Ley]
Document 28: Ley's Dialogue with the Dead [Robert Ley]
Document 29: Confessions of an Anti-semite [Robert Ley]
Obeying Orders: Complicity and Denial
Document 30: "not a dangerous person" [Wilhelm Frick]
Document 31: "talking in a dream" [Joachim von Ribbentrop]
Document 32: "very undesirable activities" [Heinz Guderian]
Germany's Future
Document 33: Rebuilding the Reich [Robert Ley]
Document 34: Schacht's New Germany [Hjalmar Schacht]
Notes
Bibliography and Sources
Transcript Sources
Index
"Gripping, horrifying, absorbing and dismaying by turns." —Richard J. Evans, in The Times Literary Supplement
"Riveting...an essential contribution to our understanding of the Nazi Era." —Booklist
Outlaw Country
The Criminals
The Charges
Asking the Questions
The Absentees: Hitler, Himmler, Bormann
Selective Amnesia? The Case of Hess
The Helpful Speer
The Unrepentant Goering
The Limits of Responsibility: Strategies of Denial
Confessing to Genocide
"I hope they hang all": Final Retribution
PART II: INTERROGATIONS: THE TRANSCRIPTS
Notes on the Transcripts
Perspectives on the Fuehrer
Document 1: 'the driving force' [Albert Speer]
Document 2: Hitler's Women [Karl Brandt]
Document 3: The New Feudalism [Hans Lammers]
Document 4: Hitler the Warlord [Alfred Jodl]
"The world's worst criminal": Goering in the Third Reich
Document 5: A Souvenir from Monte Cassino [Hermann Goering]
Document 6: The Commander-in-Chief [Hermann Goering]
Document 7: Conquest by Telephone [Hermann Goering]
Document 7b: Vote "No" if you dare [Albert Goering]
Waging War
Document 8: Ribbentrop, Hitler and War [Joachim von Ribbentrop]
Document 9: Hitler's "chess game of power politics" [Albert Speer]
Document 10: OKW at War [Wilhelm Keitel]
Genocide
Document 11: The Fuehrer Order [Dieter Wisliceny]
Document 12: A Morbid Accounting [Dieter Wisliceny]
Document 13: "incredible things at Auschwitz" [Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak]
Document 14: A Doctor at Dachau [Franz Blaha]
Document 15: Auschwitz-Birkenau [Rudolf Hoess]
Document 16: Demarcation Dispute [Otto Moll and Rudolf Hoess]
The Hess Case
Document 17: "I have lost my memory" [Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering]
Document 18: The Young Ladies [Rudolf Hess, Ingeborg Sperr and Hildegarde Fath]
Document 19: "the science of psychiatry is sound" [Rudolf Hess]
The von Papen Case: Resistance and Compliance
Document 22: Speer the Expert [Albert Speer]
Document 23: Sixty Acts of Treason [Albert Speer]
Document 24: Speer the Assassin [Dietrich Stahl]
Document 25: Special Pleading [Albert Speer]
Document 26: "not a concern of mine" [Albert Speer]
Robert Ley: Profile of a Suicide
Document 27: The Testament of Robert Ley [Robert Ley]
Document 28: Ley's Dialogue with the Dead [Robert Ley]
Document 29: Confessions of an Anti-semite [Robert Ley]
Obeying Orders: Complicity and Denial
Document 30: "not a dangerous person" [Wilhelm Frick]
Document 31: "talking in a dream" [Joachim von Ribbentrop]
Document 32: "very undesirable activities" [Heinz Guderian]
Germany's Future
Document 33: Rebuilding the Reich [Robert Ley]
Document 34: Schacht's New Germany [Hjalmar Schacht]
Notes
Bibliography and Sources
Transcript Sources
Index
"Gripping, horrifying, absorbing and dismaying by turns." —Richard J. Evans, in The Times Literary Supplement
"Riveting...an essential contribution to our understanding of the Nazi Era." —Booklist
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