Heinrich Himmler / Peter Longerich ; translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe.
Longerich, Peter.; Noakes, Jeremy.; Sharpe, Lesley, 1952-
2012
DD247.H46 L6513 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Heinrich Himmler / Peter Longerich ; translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe.
Author Longerich, Peter.
Uniform Title Heinrich Himmler. English
ISBN 9780199592326 hardcover alkaline paper
0199592322 hardcover alkaline paper
9780199651740 paperback
0199651744 paperback
Imprint Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description xviii, 1031 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number DD247.H46 L6513 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 943.086092
Summary "In this, the first-ever comprehensive biography of the Reichsführer-SS, leading German historian Peter Longerich puts every aspect of Himmler's life under the microscope. Masterfully interweaving the story of Himmler's personal life and political career with the wider history of the Nazi dictatorship, Longerich shows how skillfully he exploited and manipulated his disparate roles in the pursuit of his far-reaching and grandiose objectives. In the process, he illuminates the extraordinary degree to which Himmler's own personal prejudices, idiosyncrasies, and predilections made their mark on the organizations for which he was responsible--especially the SS, which in so many ways bore the characteristic hallmarks of its leader, and whose history remains incomprehensible without a detailed and intimate knowledge of its deeply sinister commander-in-chief"--Dust-jacket.
Note Originally published in German as: Heinrich Himmler : Biographie. München : Siedler, 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [749]-991) and index.
Added Author Noakes, Jeremy.
Sharpe, Lesley, 1952-
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I. Himmler's early years. Childhood and youth ; The student of agriculture ; Struggle and renunciation ; A new start in Lower Bavaria ; The Party functionary ; Reichsführer-SS
II. Inside the Third Reich. The takeover of the political police ; From Inspector of the Prussian Gestapo to Chief of the German Police ; The State Protection Corps
III. The Order. Ideology and religious cult ; Himmler's leadership style ; Himmler as educator ; The SS family
IV. Into war : ambition and disappointment. War preparations and expansion ; War and settlement in Poland ; A new racial order ; Repression in the Reich ; Shifting borders : The year 1940
V. The greater Germanic Reich : living-space and ethnic murder. An ideological war of annihilation ; From mass murder to the 'Final Solution' ; The murder of the European Jews ; Settlement policy and racial selection ; The 'Iron law of ethnicity' : recruitment into the Waffen-SS ; A Europe-wide reign of terror
VI. Downfall in stages. A turn in the war : a new opportunity? ; Collapse
Conclusion.

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