This text examines most significant individuals who influenced every aspect of life in Nazi Germany, both in support of and against the regime. These includes party leaders, SS and Gestapo personnel, Wehrmacht and diplomatic personnel, civil servants, industrialists, academics, resistance workers, artists, writers and entertainers: from Konrad Adenauer, Eva Braun, Goebbels and Hess to Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Kurt Weill and Brecht. The author links each biography to a facet of the Third Reich to convey a complete picture of Hitler's Germany and Nazism. The book provides: extensive biographical information on each figure, analysis of their role and significance in Nazi Germany, an accessible, easy-to-use A-Z layout and a glossary and bibliography.
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'Robert Wistrich deals with the villains and the horrors they perpetrated for the most part briskly, but at times with biting sarcasm ... the pointed or amusing quotations, the implicit approval or more often damning criticism ... all contribute to an eminently readable collection. Who's Who in Nazi Germany is something of a tour de force, with the substance and cutting edge to engross the reader, and bring him back repeatedly for more.' - History
'By cool dispassionate reporting he exposes a liturgy of evil.' - History Today
'By cool dispassionate reporting he exposes a liturgy of evil.' - History Today
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By S. Coles
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book is Brilliant, it was just a pity it came too late for the assignment, how ever may come in useful in the future.
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By Ian Walthew
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Whenever I am reading any book concerning the Nazis, I have this book directly to hand. Concise, accurate, restrained yet deeply angry in places. The facts speak for themselves, particularly regarding the post-1945 lives of so many leading Nazis.
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By Captain Anthony
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I don't know which book the previous reviewer was reading, but it wasn't this one. Professor Wistrich's book is intended as a reference work, providing brief biographies of important or significant persons in Germany under the Nazi regime. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive biography of every member of the Nazi Party, nor to be a compendium of evil-doers, and it does neither. For example, it includes listings for Bertolt Brecht (playwright and poet), Otto Dix (German-expressionist painter), Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize-winning physicist), and Kathe Kollwitz (Socialist and painter)-- none of them Nazis. The big-name Nazis are there, but so are church leaders, artists, scientists, and business people, of a variety of political and ideological orientations, some of them offering active resistance to National Socialism.
The book is a biographical dictionary, providing a ready reference and point of departure for further research by the serious student. If I have a criticism, it is in some of those selected for inclusion-- a necessarily subjective decision, as the author acknowleges.
The previous reviewer's contention that Wistrich cites four of his own works in the bibliography again left me wondering what book he had read. In my copy, the author cites a grand total of ONE of his own works. Nor is the book the protracted drumbeat about how evil the Nazis were that the previous reviewer would have us believe it is, though failure to acknowledge the fact would be a falsification of history worthy of an ideologue-- not a historian.
The book is a biographical dictionary, providing a ready reference and point of departure for further research by the serious student. If I have a criticism, it is in some of those selected for inclusion-- a necessarily subjective decision, as the author acknowleges.
The previous reviewer's contention that Wistrich cites four of his own works in the bibliography again left me wondering what book he had read. In my copy, the author cites a grand total of ONE of his own works. Nor is the book the protracted drumbeat about how evil the Nazis were that the previous reviewer would have us believe it is, though failure to acknowledge the fact would be a falsification of history worthy of an ideologue-- not a historian.
37 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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Not for academic pursuits...
20 Jan 2001
By A Customer
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If you want to discover that Nazis were very, very bad people, then this book is for you!
However, if you are writing a paper or piece of historical fiction, or if you simply want to gain understanding about the political underpinnings and society of Nazi Germany, then this wouldn't be a good choice.
This book only features the well-known Nazis, and is very general in scope. You definitely won't find anything new here if you are a history buff. If you need info on a particular influential Nazi, for example Gregor Ebner or Emil Strom, look elsewhere. Only brief (page-and-a-half or so) bios with lists of evil deeds are included--nothing about organizations, timelines, or political relationships. Nothing of any substance. I was very disappointed by the lack of info in this book, and feel somewhat cheated.(It took twenty days to arrive, too.)
This book seems to have suffered from the author's passion for the subject. In the bibliography, he cites four of his own previous books, which is bad form for a scholar. I can't imagine how this book could be useful to anyone except for those who need to be reassured that the bastards are still evil after all these years. Most of this book is hot air. One star (two if you need to be reminded that Nazis are not good Volks).
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