What Hitler Knew

Publié le par Zachary Shore

What Hitler KnewWhat Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II.

Zachary Shore argues persuasively that the tense environment led the diplomats to a nearly obsessive control over the "information arsenal" in a desperate battle to defend their positions and to safeguard their lives.

Unlike previous studies, this book draws the reader into the diplomats' darker world, and illustrates how Hitler's power to make informed decisions was limited by the very system he created. The result, Shore concludes, was a chaotic flow of information between Hitler and his advisers that may have accelerated the march toward war.





Author : Zachary Shore
ISBN-13 : 9780198035183
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date : 05/12/2002

Editorial Reviews

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This is the frightening yet fascinating story of the inner workings of Nazi Germany's diplomatic corps during the years leading up to World War II. Shore (research fellow, American Inst. for Contemporary German Studies) utilizes the archived personal papers of various German ambassadors and ministers to present a graphic picture of Hitler's Reich that heretofore has been largely ignored by scholars. It reveals a regime of chaos, violence, and uncertainty created by Hitler that eventually caused his own demise. Shore describes the deterioration of the information flow, which resulted from distrust within the government, where information became a thing to be controlled and brokered to keep oneself alive and the F hrer satisfied. The book also illuminates the duplicity of Britain's Chamberlain, the paranoia of Stalin, and the inexorable fumblings of all involved in moving the world forward toward the mass destruction that followed. Recommended for all collections.

Meet the Author

Zachary Shore is a research fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

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