Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands 1945
While the trial of Hitler's fallen elite at Nuremberg has been thoroughly documented, the
interval between the Nazis' capture in May and June 1945 and the start of the actual trial in late November has until now remained shrouded in shadow. With Interrogations, acclaimed historian
Richard Overy opens a new window into the Third Reich, providing an intimate glimpse of the savage dictatorship in its death throes.
More than thirty transcripts of the interrogations are reproduced here for the first time, allowing us to hear the voices of the newly captured "Hitler gang"-including Göring, Speer, and Hess-as
they squirmed under the Allies' glare. Interrogations is the stark and disturbing history of defeat; it lays bare as never before the human weaknesses that made the Third Reich possible.
ISBN-13 : 9780142001585
Publisher : Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date : 28/09/2002
Author : Richard Overy
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
"Profoundly unsettling....a chilling glimpse of Hitler's chief lieutenants." —J. G. Ballard, in The New Statesman
"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
Meet the Author
Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He has written extensively on modern German and European history, and is the author of Russia's War and The Penguin Atlas
of the Third Reich.