The Hitler I Knew: Memoirs of the Third Reich's Press Chief
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1602399727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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His direct, personal experience of life at the heat of the Reich makes for compelling reading.. Up to the last moment, his overwhelming, despotic authority aroused false hopes and deceived his people and his entourage. At the end of the war, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write what he had seen and heard in twelve years of the closest association with Hitler, requesting that it be published after his death. Only at the end, when I watched the inglorious collapse and the obstinacy of his final downfall, was I able suddenly to fit together the bits of mosaic I had been amassing for twelve years into a complete picture of his opaque and sphinx like personality. He was hired by Hitler in 1933, was his confidant until 1945, and he workedand clashedwith Joseph Goebbels. Dietrich’s role placed him in a privileged position. If my contemporaries fail to understand me, those who came after will surely profit from this account.”Otto Dietrich When Otto Dietrich was invited in 1933 to become Adolf Hitler’s press chief, he accepted with the simple uncritical conviction that Adolf Hitler was a great man, dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people
The Hitler I Knew is a memoir of the dictator by Otto Dietrich his longtime press chief The Hitler I Knew was authored by Dr. Otto Dietrich (1897-52). Dietrich served as Hitler's press chief from 1933-The Hitler I Knew is a memoir of the dictator by Otto Dietrich his longtime press chief C. M Mills The Hitler I Knew was authored by Dr. Otto Dietrich (1897-52). Dietrich served as Hitler's press chief from 1933-45. He was often a rival of Joseph Geobbels the notorious Reich Minster of Propaganda. Dietrich had an earned doctorate. He grew up in Essen.. 5. He was often a rival of Joseph Geobbels the notorious Reich Minster of Propaganda. Dietrich had an earned doctorate. He grew up in Essen.. OtherWorlds&Wisdom said A Window into the Mind of a Madman and the People who Fell For Him. Many have tried to figure out what made Hitler the way he was and why he did what he did. Otto's book reveals the dual nature of his troubled mind. He was a true Jeckyl/Hyde mixed with an egomaniac. It will surprise many people that Hitler spent years re. In the shadow of Dr Goebbels? - An astonishing book Roger Clark This is an astonishing book - the most clear-eyed psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler produced by a Nazi insider. Written by Hitler's press chief, Dr Otto Dietrich, it explains the workings of Hitler's mind and actions better than nearly any other boo
. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to seven years in prison, where he wrote his memoirs. Otto Dietrich was the Third Reich’s press chief from 1933 to 1945. He died in 1952 at the age of fifty-five.Roger Moorhouse is a leading expert on the Third Reich and is the author of Ki
The audience clearly on Dietrich's mind was the German people, to whom, as a Hitler associate, he felt obligated to offer an explanation of the author of their trauma in 1945. Nevertheless, his character observations accord with historian Ian Kershaw's biography and so may engage general interest in what Hitler's haunts and habits were like. From Booklist A member of Hitler's staff who monitored foreign press for the dictator, Dietrich began this memoir within months of Nazi Germany's defeat. Amid details about physical surroundings, Dietrich imparts the tedium of listening to Hitler's repetitive nocturnal monologues, from which palaver Dietrich theorizes a dual personality of superficial affability concealing aggressive willfulness. Long on philosophy and anecdotes, Dietrich's narrative and factual utility to a historian would be limited. --Gilbert Taylor . There are sound reasons why Dietrich's recollections (which were originally published