The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle"Perceptive, illuminating, and grandly ambitious, The Devil's Disciples is above all a powerful chronological narrative, showing how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war, and Hitler himself. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Nazi period, or the workings of a dictatorship."--BOOK JACKET. |
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THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLES: The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle
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Detailed account of Hitler's inner circle
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
ROOTS 19181923 | 11 |
OUR TIME WILL COME AGAIN | 13 |
IF ONLY THERE COULD BE FIGHTING AGAIN | 39 |
FIGHTING THE NOVEMBER CRIMINALS | 61 |
BEER HALL REVOLUTION | 85 |
THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE 19241933 | 103 |
REGROUPING | 105 |
KRISTALLNACHT | 505 |
ILL COOK THEM A STEW THAT THEYLL CHOKE ON | 528 |
I HAVE THE WORLD IN MY POCKET | 554 |
IF WE LOSE THIS WAR THEN GOD HAVE MERCY ON US | 574 |
WAR GERMANY TRIUMPHANT | 593 |
BLITZKRIEG | 595 |
YELLOW | 614 |
EAGLES AND SEA LIONS | 641 |
A STAR IN THE MAKING | 126 |
CHIEF BANDIT OF BERLIN | 154 |
WE COME AS ENEMIES | 176 |
SSMAN YOUR LOYALTY IS YOUR HONOUR | 202 |
NOW THE CHESS GAME FOR POWER BEGINS | 223 |
THE TURNING POINT | 248 |
POWER AND REVOLUTION 19331936 | 273 |
POWER | 275 |
COORDINATION | 292 |
THE END OF THE BROWN REVOLUTION | 317 |
NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES | 345 |
WE ALWAYS APPROVE EVERYTHING OUR FUHRER DOES | 375 |
THE FOURYEAR PLAN | 404 |
EXPANSION THE GREATER GERMAN REICH 19371939 | 429 |
THE BLOMBERGFRITSCH AFFAIR | 431 |
ANSCHLUSS | 456 |
THE SUDETENLAND CRISIS | 480 |
THE WHOLE WORLD WILL HOLD ITS BREATH | 664 |
THE GREATEST DECEPTION OPERATION IN MILITARY HISTORY | 693 |
BARBAROSSA | 710 |
WAR DEFEAT | 735 |
THE FINAL SOLUTION | 737 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE END | 761 |
DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR? | 783 |
CALL ME MEIER | 809 |
LAST THROW OF THE DICE | 831 |
GOTTERDAMMERUNG | 860 |
THE END OF THE ROAD | 891 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 925 |
NOTES | 926 |
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