Joachim C. Fest is the author of Hitler and Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance, 1933-1945. He lives in Germany.

• * Foreword * Pt. Adolf Hitler's Path from Men's Hostel to Reich Chancellery * The Incubation Period * The Drummer * The Fuhrer * The Reich Chancellor * Victor and Vanquished * Pt. Practitioners and Technicians of Totalitarian Rule * Hermann Goring - Number Two * Joseph Goebbels: 'Man the Beast' * Reinhard Heydrich - The Successor * Heinrich Himmler - Petty Bourgeois and Grand Inquisitor * Martin Bormann - The Brown Eminence * Ernst Rohm and the Lost Generation * Pt. Functionaries of Totalitarian Rule * Franz von Papen and the Conservative Collaboration * Alfred Rosenberg - The Forgotten Disciple * Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Degradation of Diplomacy * Rudolf Hess: The Embarrassment of Freedom * Albert Speer and the Immorality of the Technicians * Hans Frank - Imitation of a Man of Violence * Baldur von Schirach and the 'Mission of the Younger Generation' * General von X: Behaviour and Role of the Officer Corps in the Third Reich * 'Professor NSDAP': The Intellectuals and National Socialism * German Wife and Mother: The Role of Women in the Third Reich * Rudolf Hoss - The Man from the Crowd * Pt. The Face of the Third Reich: Attempt at a Summing Up * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Joachim C. Fest is the author of Hitler and Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance, 1933-1945. He lives in Germany.

• * Foreword * Pt. Adolf Hitler's Path from Men's Hostel to Reich Chancellery * The Incubation Period * The Drummer * The Fuhrer * The Reich Chancellor * Victor and Vanquished * Pt. Practitioners and Technicians of Totalitarian Rule * Hermann Goring - Number Two * Joseph Goebbels: 'Man the Beast' * Reinhard Heydrich - The Successor * Heinrich Himmler - Petty Bourgeois and Grand Inquisitor * Martin Bormann - The Brown Eminence * Ernst Rohm and the Lost Generation * Pt. Functionaries of Totalitarian Rule * Franz von Papen and the Conservative Collaboration * Alfred Rosenberg - The Forgotten Disciple * Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Degradation of Diplomacy * Rudolf Hess: The Embarrassment of Freedom * Albert Speer and the Immorality of the Technicians * Hans Frank - Imitation of a Man of Violence * Baldur von Schirach and the 'Mission of the Younger Generation' * General von X: Behaviour and Role of the Officer Corps in the Third Reich * 'Professor NSDAP': The Intellectuals and National Socialism * German Wife and Mother: The Role of Women in the Third Reich * Rudolf Hoss - The Man from the Crowd * Pt. The Face of the Third Reich: Attempt at a Summing Up * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Joachim C. Fest is the author of Hitler and Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance, 1933-1945. He lives in Germany.

• * Foreword * Pt. Adolf Hitler's Path from Men's Hostel to Reich Chancellery * The Incubation Period * The Drummer * The Fuhrer * The Reich Chancellor * Victor and Vanquished * Pt. Practitioners and Technicians of Totalitarian Rule * Hermann Goring - Number Two * Joseph Goebbels: 'Man the Beast' * Reinhard Heydrich - The Successor * Heinrich Himmler - Petty Bourgeois and Grand Inquisitor * Martin Bormann - The Brown Eminence * Ernst Rohm and the Lost Generation * Pt. Functionaries of Totalitarian Rule * Franz von Papen and the Conservative Collaboration * Alfred Rosenberg - The Forgotten Disciple * Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Degradation of Diplomacy * Rudolf Hess: The Embarrassment of Freedom * Albert Speer and the Immorality of the Technicians * Hans Frank - Imitation of a Man of Violence * Baldur von Schirach and the 'Mission of the Younger Generation' * General von X: Behaviour and Role of the Officer Corps in the Third Reich * 'Professor NSDAP': The Intellectuals and National Socialism * German Wife and Mother: The Role of Women in the Third Reich * Rudolf Hoss - The Man from the Crowd * Pt. The Face of the Third Reich: Attempt at a Summing Up * Notes * Bibliography * Index