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Inside the Third Reich: memoirs
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pt 1. 1. Origins and youth : Youth ; Life at home ; Schooling ; Inflation ; Assistant to Tessenow ; Marriage
2. Profession and vocation : Offer from Afghanistan ; Architect without commissions ; Boating tours ; The election of September 14, 1930 ; National socialism and the technical institute ; First Hitler rally ; Goebbels in the Sportpalast ; Joining the party
3. Junction : First party assignment in Berlin ; Back in Mannheim ; Hitler's Berlin demonstration ; Renovating the party headquarters and the Propaganda Ministry ; Décor for the Party Rally, May 1933 ; My client Hitler ; At home with Hitler
4. My catalyst : Hitler's guest ; My client Goering ; Traveling with Hitler ; Hitler's thought ; Hitler's views on art ; The Old Fighters ; At Obersalzberg Mountain walks with Eva Braun ; Cheers and obsessions ; Hitler the architect
5. Architectural megalomania : The Roehm putsch ; Papen expelled from his office ; Hindenburg's funeral ; First major assignment ; Theory of ruin value ; Cathedral of light ; Cornerstone layings ; Plans for Nuremberg ; Architecture of a Great Power
6. The greatest assignment : Plans for Berlin ; Rivaling Vienna and Paris ; Hitler and his architects ; The German pavilion at the Paris World's Fair ; Neoclassicism in our times ; Abortive travels in France ; Neurath's obstinacy
7. Obersalzberg : Bormann and Hitler ; The day at Obersalzberg ; Teatime talk ; Hitler's rage ; Retirement in Linz ; Hitler prediction
8. The new Chancellery : The assignment ; Hitler's illness ; Morell ; Events of 1938: cabinet changes, Austria, Munich, November 9 ; A bad omen ; Hacha in the new Chancellery
9. A day in the Chancellery : Waiting ; Hess the eccentric ; The leadership's "style" ; The radicals, Bormann and Goebbels ; Jokes for Hitler ; Dull evenings ; Hitler and music
10. Our Empire style : "You've all gone completely crazy" ; Laying out the grand avenue ; Megalomania ; Deadlines ; Costs ; Boom in architecture ; Hitler's sketches ; Affairs in the Goebbels family ; Incognita to Italy ; Hitler's fiftieth birthday ; With the Wagner family in Bayreuth ; Frau Goebbels
11. The globe : Hitler's power center ; The biggest building in the world ; A Reichstag for one hundred forty million people ; Hitler's palace ; Fear of uprisings ; Empire style ; The globe
12. The descent begins : The pact ; Northern lights over Obersalzberg ; "Blood" ; War and peace parties ; Hitler goes to war ; At headquarters ; Armistice ; With Hitler in Paris ; Wartime building program
13. Excess : Victory parades under the triumphal arch ; Hess's flight to England ; Hitler and Goering as art collectors ; War against the Soviet Union ; The pencil line along the Urals ; Captured weapons for the grand avenue ; Trondheim and the East ; My last art tour ; Disaster in Russia ; The second man.
pt. 2. 14. Start in my new office : Flight to Dnepropetrovsk ; Visit to headquarters ; Talks with Hitler and Todt ; Death of Todt ; Audience with Hitler ; Appointment as Minister ; Goering's scene ; First official acts ; Obstacles overcome ; The Cabinet Room
15. Organized improvisation : The new organizational scheme ; Goering's threat to resign ; Architect and technology ; Industrial self-responsibility ; Organization of the Ministry ; Successes
16. Sins of omission : The technological war ; Efforts at full mobilization ; Party opposition ; More steel for the war ; Transportation crisis ; The muffed atom bomb
17. Commander in Chief Hitler : Armaments conferences with Hitler ; My system ; Hitler's knowledge of technology ; Demonstrating weapons ; Visits in southern Russia ; Ascent of Mount Elbrus ; Hitler's situation conferences ; The Allied landing in North Africa ; Goering and Stalingrad
18. Intrigues : Bormann ; Cabinet meetings again ; Need for austerity ; Discussions with Goebbels ; Alliances ; Bormann's system ; Dealing with Goebbels, dealing with Goering ; Fiasco ; Himmler's threat
19. Second man in the state : Goebbels joins Bormann ; Hitler reprimands Goebbels ; No prisoners ; Bridge to Asia ; Guderian and Zeitzler agree ; Minister of War ; Production
20. Bombs : The new front ; Goering's deceptions ; The Ruhr dams ; Pinpoint bombing strategy ; The raids on Hamburg ; Ball bearings ; The enemy's strategic mistake ; The bombing of Berlin ; Hitler's mistakes ; Galland against Goering ; The flight from reality
21. Hitler in the Autumn of 1943 : The change in Hitler ; His rigidity and exhaustion ; Daily routine ; Hitler and his dog ; The Prince of Hesse ; Mussolini freed and cheated
22. Downhill : Armaments work in occupied territories ; Agreement with the French ; Sauckel's reaction ; Speech to the Gauleiters ; Hitler lies to his generals ; Trip to Lapland ; Infantry program ; Trouble with Sauckel ; Goering's birthday.
pt. 3. 23. Illness : Dangerous plots ; Convalescence ; The fighter aircraft staff ; Hitler's emotion and new estrangement ; Candidates for my office ; Thoughts of resignation ; Back at the Berghof ; Hitler yields ; Praise in The Observer
24. The war thrice lost : Return to work ; Strategic bombing of fuel production ; Memoranda ; Rommel and coastal defense ; The invasion of Normandy begins ; Takeover of aircraft production ; Hitler's speech to the industrialists
25. Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS : Jet fighters as bombers ; Peenemünde ; Concentration camp prisoners in war industry ; Himmler invades rocket research ; Plans for SS economic expansion ; Stealing workers ; Auschwitz
26. Operation Valkyrie : Talks with the conspirators ; The news reaches Goebbels ; In the center of the counterstroke ; Bendlerstrasse ; Meeting with Fromm ; Himmler calls on Goebbels ; Kaltenbrunner's visit ; On the conspirators' lists ; Aftermath ; Arrests ; Films of the executions
27. the wave from the West : Goebbels gains power ; Hitler loses authority ; Visits to the front ; September 1944: military impotence ; Hitler's plans for destruction ; Outwitting his arguments ; Shortage of chromium ; Declining production ; Secret weapons and propaganda
28. Plunge : Breakup of organization ; Emergency program ; The Ardennes offensive ; Upper Silesia ; "The war is lost" ; Memorandum ; Reaction to Yalta ; Poison gas for Hitler's bunker
29. Doom : Anxiety over the postwar period ; Countermeasures ; Another memorandum ; Hitler's reply ; Hitler's death sentence upon industry
30. Hitler's ultimatum : The Ruhr threatened ; Feverish travels ; Sabotage of orders ; Hitler's twenty-four-hour ultimatum ; An unread letter ; Hitler yields again
31. The thirteenth hour : Radio speech ; Finale of Götterdämmerung ; Roosevelt's death ; Ley invents death rays ; Eva Braun ; Preparations for flight ; Plans for suicide ; Hitler's last delusions ; The "rebel speech" ; Collaboration with Heinrici ; Berlin will not be defended
32. Annihilation : Hitler's condition ; Fear and pity ; Last birthday ; Goering goes to Berchtesgaden ; My flight ; In the Hamburg radio bunker ; Last visit to Hitler ; Situation conference ; Farewell to Magda Goebbels and Eva Brawn ; Last words with Hitler ; Himmler and his notions ; Doenitz ; Tears ; Responsibility
33. Stations of imprisonment : Flensburg ; Mondorf ; Versailles ; Kransberg ; Nuremberg
34. Nuremberg : Interrogations ; Collective responsibility ; Cross-examination
35. Conclusions : The judgment ; The sentence ; My own fate ; Skepticism.
From the Book
Part 1: Origins and youth
Profession and vocation
Junction
My catalyst
Architectural megalomania
Greatest assignment
Obersalzberg
New Chancellery
Day in the Chancellery
Our Empire style
Globe
Descent begins
Excess
Part 2: Start in my new office
Organized improvisation
Sins of omission
Commander in Chief Hitler
Intrigues
Second man in the state
Bombs
Hitler in the Autumn of 1943
Downhill
Part 3: Illness
War thrice lost
Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS
Operation Valkyrie
Wave from the West
Plunge
Doom
Hitler's ultimatum
Thirteenth hour
Annihilation
Epilogue: Stations of imprisonment
Nuremberg
Conclusions
Afterword
Notes
Index.
From the Book
Part 1: Origins and youth
Profession and vocation
Junction
My catalyst
Architectural megalomania
Greatest assignment
Obersalzberg
New Chancellery
Day in the Chancellery
Our Empire style
Globe
Descent begins
Excess
Part 2: Start in my new office
Organized improvisation
Sins of omission
Commander in Chief Hitler
Intrigues
Second man in the state
Bombs
Hitler in the Autumn of 1943
Downhill
Part 3: Illness
War thrice lost
Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS
Operation Valkyrie
Wave from the West
Plunge
Doom
Hitler's ultimatum
Thirteenth hour
Annihilation
Epilogue: Stations of imprisonment
Nuremberg
Conclusions
Index.
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Davidson, Eugene,1902-2002 writer of introduction
Speer, Albert,1905-1981
Winston, Clara translator
Winston, Richard translator
Speer, Albert,1905-1981
Winston, Clara translator
Winston, Richard translator
ISBN
9780684829494
002037500
9780923891732
9780020375005
9781439502129
002037500
9780923891732
9780020375005
9781439502129
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