The book you are about to read is one of the most extraordinary historical documents of the 20th century. Where did Hitler get the funds and the backing to achieve power in 1933 Germany? Did these funds come only from prominent German bankers and industrialists or did funds also come from American bankers and industrialists? American bankers supplied Adolf Hitler with millions of dollars to help build up his Nazi party. Warburg was a joint owner of the New York bank, Kuhn Loeb & Cie; he describes three conversations he held with Hitler at the request of American financiers. This book was originally publisher in Holland in 1933, shortly before Warburg's death
“A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review
The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf HitlerChapter 1: Incest, violence, criminality & insanityIncestuous marriage; savage beatings; impotent as a heterosexual; guilty of indecent assault; sending his feces to the school principal; craving for a strong male; castration anxiety; the rest of Hitler's family; insane cousin gassed to death; Jewish relativesChapter 2: Mother FixationMother's darling; Oedipus complex; seeing his parents having sex; lying to his mother; racked with guilt; love and tenderness; poem to his motherChapter 3: August KubizekNocturnal excursions; first girl crush; mentally unbalanced; jealousy and arguments; young Hitler's sexuality; incest incarnate; Brokeback Mountain?Chapter 4: Reinhold HanischDream factory; lover's quarrel; pederasty and theft; Jewish advisers; Hitler's unknown male companion in MunichChapter 5: Ernst SchmidtWW1; glorious meaning of a male community; sexual bullying (or a small penis); guilty of pederastic practices with an officer; in Munich with Schmidt; smear campaignChapter 6: Landsberg Love TriangleBisexual bodyguards; casual gay lovers; only one testicle; my splendid Maurice; sex with Rudolf Hess; Mein Kampf; increasing aspirationsChapter 7: "Brotherhood of Poofs"Sexual perversion records destroyed; openly gay; getting rid of Queen Ernst Roehm; whip in hand, Night of the Long Knives; new anti-gay laws; gay Nazis married offChapter 8: Julius SchreckRubber bludgeons; Schreck as doppelganger; car lovers; trysts at Hotel Bube; Hitler's fantasies come true; primitive and brutal; state funeral for Fuhrer's chauffeur and loverChapter 9: Feminine characteristicsDr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde; weeping like a baby; submissive, feminine role; chewing the carpet; threats of suicideChapter 10: Physical profileHeight, weight and missing testicle; hypnotic eyes; vegetarian diet & general health; heart attack; Parkinson's diseaseChapter 11: Addictions & obsessionsObsession with syphilis; blow-up sex dolls; bed compulsion; being attacked from behind; hypochondriac; insomniac; master of the syringe; junkieChapter 12: The feminine massesHitler's views on women; lashing himself into a frenzy; mother figures; royalty; fear of humiliation; Movie stars; Leni Riefenstahl and Jenny Jugo; sex shows; pornography & art; myth of the Aryan woman; fear of producing a cretin; underage Catholic girls; was Hitler a pedophile?Chapter 13: Dark desiresSadomasochist; Hitler's whip; urine and feces; coprophilia and undinism; degrading himself; back to his mother's wombChapter 14: Suzi LiptauerMunich 1921; young maids and secretaries; attempted hanging; the actress Pola Negri; hush money and marriage; Hitler's internal struggleChapter 15: Maria ReiterHorse whipped; woodland fairy; suicide attempt; sex with a minor; blackmail; sworn affidavit; one night of passion; sexual tastes too extremeChapter 16: Geli RaubalDoomed angel; more and more obsessive; virtual confinement; sex with the chauffeur; sexual perversions; squatting over Hitler's face; pornographic drawings; sexual confession; in love with a Jew; final argument; Bushido; gunshot to the chest; was it suicide or Hitler's first murder?Chapter 17: Renate MuellerMasochistic gratifications; begging for violent sex; torture techniques; blacklisted; Jewish lover; Gestapo surveillance; addicted to morphine; confined in a sanatorium; jumped to her deathChapter 18: Unity MitfordStalker; yearning for sex; anti-Semite; orgies with SA and SS men; propaganda coup; Hitler's arousal; necromancy; bullet in the brain; 9 years to dieChapter 19: Inge LeyMezzo-soprano; turbulent marriage, constant pain; refuge in morphine; premature birth; bullet in the brainChapter 20: Eva BraunWasted glamor, Eva's despair, two suicide attempts, sex with other men, Fuhrer bunker Berlin, death by cyanide poisoningChapter 21: Hitler's childrenOne son and nine grandchildren
The blockbuster spy thriller from the award-winning author of Corpus. ___________________ Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed. In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is approached by an American intelligence officer who claims to know of such a weapon - one so secret even Hitler himself isn't aware of its existence. If Wilde can smuggle the package out of Germany, the Third Reich will surely fall. But it is only when he is deep behind enemy lines that Wilde discovers why the Nazis are so desperate to prevent the 'package' falling into Allied hands. And as ruthless killers hunt him through Europe, a treacherous question hangs over the mission: if Hitler's secret will win them the war, why is Wilde convinced it must remain hidden? Dramatic, intelligent, and utterly compelling, Hitler's Secret is the Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller of 2020 from the award-winning author of Corpus and Nucleus - perfect for readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon. _____________________________ Praise for Rory Clements: 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'A dramatic, twisty thriller' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph
“A hive of interesting facts and almost unbelievable stories about Adolf Hitler . . . Well worth a look. Well worth a read.” —War History Online Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs, and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler’s security and domestic arrangements. The book focuses in particular on both the official and private life of Hitler during the latter part of the war, at the Wolf’s Lair at Rastenburg, and Hitler’s private residence at Berchtesgaden, the Berghof. Guarding Hitler manages to offer fresh insights into the life and routine of the Führer, and most importantly, the often indiscreet opinions, observations, and activities of the “little people” who surrounded Hitler but whose stories have been overshadowed by the great affairs of state. It covers not only the plots against Hitler’s life but the way security developed as a result. His use of “doubles” is examined as is security while traveling by land or air. As little has been written about the security and domestic life of Adolf Hitler, Guarding Hitler allows the reader to delve deeper into this previously overlooked aspect of the world’s most infamous man. “A fascinating view into the close world Hitler inhabited and which shaped his life and decisions.” —Fire Reviews
The “explosive” (The New York Times) bestseller that “redefined the history of the twentieth century” (The Washington Post ) This shocking book was the first account to tell the whole truth about Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II, and it remains the definitive account of that era. It sparked a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Award-winning journalist John Cornwell has also included in this seminal work of history an introduction that both answers his critics and reaffirms his overall thesis that Pius XII fatally weakened the Catholic Church with his endorsement of Hitler—and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.
The unpublished followup to Hitler's autobiography never published during the dictator's lifetime includes details of his vision for a foreign policy based on continual aggression that would inevitably result in a confrontation with the United States, which he saw as a major stumbling block to his plans.
From one of Germany’s leading young historians, the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun, Hitler’s devoted mistress, finally wife, and the hidden First Lady of the Third Reich. In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike Görtemaker reveals Hitler’s mistress as more than just a vapid blonde whose concerns never extended beyond her vanity table. Twenty-three years his junior, Braun first met Hitler when she took a position as an assistant to his personal photographer. Capricious, but uncompromising and fiercely loyal—she married Hitler two days before committing suicide with him in Berlin in 1945—her identity was kept secret by the Third Reich until the final days of the war. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker turns preconceptions about Eva Braun and Hitler on their head, and builds a portrait of the little-known Hitler far from the public eye.
Nazi ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and culminated in the Second World War and the Holocaust. In this book, Gellately addresses often-debated questions about how Führer discovered the ideology and why millions adopted aspects of National Socialism without having laid eyes on the "leader" or reading his work.
In this powerful expose about Hitler's secret funding, James Pool tells the full story of the financial calculation, exploitation, and greed at the core of the Third Reich--including startling revelations about those who provided Hitler with money and the moral support he needed. The current furor over Nazi money held in Swiss banks makes this book extremely timely. photos. Print reviews.
