THE THIRD REICH THEN AND NOW

Dagli editori di “After the Battle” questo nuovo volume di 480 pagine abbondantemente illustrato con oltre 1,450 illustrazioni “then and now”dedicato al III Reich. A 60 anni dalla caduta di Adolf Hitler esamina: la creazione di un dittatore, i personaggi a lui più vicini (Bormann, Goebbels, Göring, Hess, Himmler, Speer, ecc.), il Putsch di Monaco, i martiri (Leo Schlageter, Horst Wessel, Herbert Norkus, Feldherrnhalle 16), le città “simbolo” del III Reich (Monaco, Norimberga, Berlino e Bayreuth), le organizzazioni ideologiche, i campi di concentramento, la seconda guerra mondiale e la “de-nazificazione”.

Sixty years have elapsed since the cataclysmic demise of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich. In this book Tony Le Tissier (author of Berlin Then and Now) traces the rise of Hitler, the Nazi Party and its ramifications, together with its deeds and accomplishments, during the twelve years that the Third Reich existed within today's boundaries of the Federal Republics of Germany and Austria. The homes — or sites of them — of the dramatis personnae; the Nazi legends of their martyrs; the sites of the former Third Reich shrines at the Obersalzberg; in Munich; Nuremberg; Bayreuth, and in Berlin; the Hitler Youth schools and the Party colleges; the 'euthanasia' killing centres; the concentration camps, and much much more. Tony then follows the progress of Hitler's war: from the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939 to defeat in Berlin and the final round-up at Flensburg in May 1945. A final chapter covers the de-Nazification of Germany, the whole volume being illustrated by 'then and now' comparison photographs which are the central theme of After the Battle.