Bücher von Volker Ullrich

Provides the rounded portrait of Hitler to date. This book sets out to correct our perception of the Fuhrer. It also includes his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions.

Woher stammte Hitler? Wie erklärt sich die Wirkung von Hitlers Reden? Inwieweit hat die Großindustrie Hitler unterstützt? Wie übte Hitler seine Herrschaft aus? Welche Einkünfte bezog Hitler? War Hitler auf militärischem Gebiet ein Dilettant? Ohne Hitler kein Holocaust? Auch mehr als siebzig Jahre nach dem Ende des Dritten Reiches ist Adolf Hitler noch ein Faszinosum. Wer dieser Mann war und welche Rolle er im NS-Regime spielte, das Krieg, Zerstörung und millionenfachen Massenmord über Europa brachte, dem geht dieser Band der Reihe «101 Fragen» nach. Volker Ullrich, Autor der großen zweibändigen Hitler-Biographie, stellt darin die wichtigsten Fragen zu Hitler und gibt kompetent, präzise und allgemeinverständlich die Antworten.

'Superb' David Aaronovitch, The Times'A punchy account that is a proper page-turner' Financial Times'The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ullrich's rich narrative' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain.Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new F hrer, Admiral D nitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union.All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich K stner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'.'A fast-paced, brilliant recounting of the turbulent last days of the Third Reich, with all the energy and chaos of a Jackson Pollock canvas' Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in its Time