Interrogations : The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 / Richard Overy

Includes bibliographical references (p. [622]-631) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part I Interrogations: an Introduction 1 -- Outlaw Country 3 -- The Criminals 25 -- The Charges 43 -- Asking the Questions 57 -- The Absentees: Hitler, Himmler, Bormann 93 -- Selective Amnesia? The Case of Hess 115 -- The Helpful Speer 129 -- The Unrepentant Goering 141 -- The Limits of Responsibility: Strategies of Denial 155 -- Confessing to Genocide 175 -- 'I hope they hang all': Final Retribution 201 -- Part II Interrogations: the Transcripts 209 -- Note on the Transcripts 211 -- Perspectives on the Fuehrer 213 -- Document 1 'the driving force' [Albert Speer] 215 -- Document 2 Hitler's Women [Karl Brandt] 258 -- Document 3 The New Feudalism [Hans Lammers] 272 -- Document 4 Hitler the Warlord [Alfred Jodl] 276 -- 'The world's worst criminal': Goering in the Third Reich 285 -- Document 5 A Souvenir from Monte Cassino [Hermann Goering] 288 -- Document 6 The Commander-in-Chief [Hermann Goering 296 -- Document 7 Conquest by Telephone [Hermann Goering] 307 -- Document 7b Vote 'No' if you dare [Albert Goering] 312 -- Waging War 315 -- Document 8 Ribbentrop, Hitler and War [Joachim von Ribbentrop] 318 -- Document 9 Hitler's 'chess game of power politics' [Albert Speer] 323 -- Document 10 OKW at War [Wilhelm Keitel] 335 -- Genocide 353 -- Document 11 The Fuehrer Order [Dieter Wisliceny] 355 -- Document 12 A Morbid Accounting [Dieter Wisliceny] 361 -- Ddcument 13 'incredible things at Auschwitz' 371 -- [Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak] -- Document 14 A Doctor at Dachau [Franz Blaha] 374 -- Document 15 Auschwitz-Birkenau [Rudolf Hoess] 381 -- Document 16 Demarcation Dispute [Otto Moll and Rudolf Hoess] 387 -- The Hess Case 401 -- Document 17 'I have lost my memory' 404 -- [Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering] -- Document 18 The Young Ladies [Rudolf Hess, 407 -- Ingeborg Sperr and Hildegarde Fath] -- Document 19 'the science of psychiatry is sound' [Rudolf Hess] 414 -- The von Papen Case: Resistance and Compliance 421 -- Document 20 'a way out of the mess': von Papen 424 -- and Hitler in 1933 [Franz von Papen] -- Document 21 'this problem of responsibility' [Franz von Papen] 431 -- Albert Speer: True Confessions? 447 -- Document 22 Speer the Expert [Albert Speer] 449 -- Document 23 Sixty Acts of Treason [Albert Speer] 453 -- Document 24 Speer the Assassin [Dietrich Stahl] 460 -- Document25 Special Pleading [Albert Speer] 468 -- Document 26 'not a concern of mine' [Albert Speer] 471 -- Robert Ley: Profile of a Suicide 477 -- Document 27 The Testament of Robert Ley [Robert Ley] 480 -- Document 28 Ley's Dialogue with the Dead [Robert Ley] 487 -- Document 29 Confessions of an Anti-semite [Robert Ley] 491 -- Obeying Orders: Complicity and Denial 499 -- Document 30 'not a dangerous person' [Wilhelm Frick] 501 -- Document 31 'talking ip a dream' [Joachim von Ribbentrop] 509 -- Document 32 'very undesirable activities' [Heinz Guderian] 527 -- Germany's Future 535 -- Document 33 Rebuilding the Reich [Robert Ley] 538 -- Document 34 Schacht's New Germany [Hjalmar Schacht] 547 -- Notes 557 -- Bibliography and Sources 622 -- Transcript Sources 632 -- Index 637.

Forfatteren giver her et dybtgaende indblik i hvad der var hjertet i den Hitlerstyrede krigsmaskine gennem hidtil utilgµngelige arkiver indeholdende rapporter fra de interviews og afh²ringer af ledende tyske civile og militµre chefer fra deres tilfangetagelse i maj/juni-dagene 1945 til krigsforbryderdomstolen i Nèurnberg indledte sin proces i juni samme ar.