- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0275937097
- ISBN-13: 978-0275937096
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,509,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?In a well-knit sequence of thoughtful chapters, Rust traces his subjects from their early apprenticeship to the navy through their often sterling wartime careers. He examines their human responses to the grim realities of war, ponders their readjustment during the often desperate years of Germany's reconstruction, and analyzes their current reflections on Germany's past and present. What makes the study particularly valuable is the author's care in setting his data in the correct historical and personal context.?-THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE
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This book is the collective biography of 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become professional officers. Eric C.Rust traces the lives and mentality of these men from their upbringing in the Weimar Republic through their post-war careers. It provides a professional, political and psychological group portrait based largely on personal interviews and correspondence as well as archival material. "Naval Officers Under Hitler" stresses the collective drama, continuity and transformation in the lives and thinking of the 318 men who joined Germany's Reichsmarine in 1934 to become professional officers. Individually and collectively, they were observers, witnesses, participants, victims, and sometimes, beneficiaries. The book argues that the vast majority of junior naval officers under Hitler, while well trained and prepared to defend "Volk and Vaterland" as good patriots, felt no profound or lasting attachment to Nazi ideology. Instead their ideological preferences remained with patriotic, conservative groups such as the German National People's Party and its successor organizations after World War II. Otherwise love of the sea and of the naval professional lay at the centre of their overall mentality and priorities.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A suberb book.
24 Feb 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book is very interesting in it's content. The details in it are a amazing. At first it seems as if you are being besieged by details but then a clearer picture emerges of a group of men who are trying to live out their lives as their culture has laid out for them. The tribulations that they go thorugh as far as personal honor are throughly examined. They are born and bred leaders the best of the best of the german navy but yet they hold back against speaking against Hitler. Rust examines their motives in not speaking up. It was also very interesting to find so much on the German Navy after WWII this is a subject which is hardly ever touched upoun. The question of what happened after is evrpresent on many history readers minds. He examines the lives of the men in their new surroundings and what has happened to them over the years.
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Great Book
30 July 2003
Format:Hardcover
This Book is probaly the best book I have ever read on the cultural history of post WWII Germany. It also raises the question of where was the dissent against Hitler? Amazing in it's scope.
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