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Title: Devil’s Diary, The: Hitler’s High Priest & the Hunt For the Lost Papers of the Third Reich
Author: WITTMAN ROBERT/KINNEY DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2016
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg – Hitler’s ‘chief philosopher’ and architect of Nazi ideology – interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents.The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler’s post-invasion plans for Russia. Only recently discovered by former FBI agent Robert Wittman, the diary of Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, who led the Nazi party when Hitler was interned in 1923, is a ground-breaking document and an object of rumour, obsession and evil. Filled with observations, conversations and Nazi plans, it gives new details of Hitler’s rise to power and personal governance of the Reich. Not simply the Nazi ideological progenitor, Rosenberg was a core member of Hitler’s inner circle: his ideas for the Third Reich and the destruction it wrought laid the foundations for a brainwashed nation and gave its people the justification for the slaughter of millions; he helped plan the Nazi invasion and subsequent occupation of the Soviet Union and was named Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories.With the first access to the diary’s contents, ‘The Devil’s Diary’ is the thrilling story of Rosenberg; Robert Kempner, the German-born Jewish Nuremberg lawyer who prosecuted Göring and Frick and stole the diary; Henry Mayer, the archivist who has doggedly been searching for it for decades; and Bob Wittman, the former FBI agent who finally found it and returned it to its rightful place.
ISBN: 9780007576647
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm