INTERROGATIONS IBD

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From award-winning historian Richard Overy Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite is the harrowing true story of the interviews with Nazi masterminds in the aftermath of the Second World War. How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did? What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of the Fuhrer? In 1945 as the Nazi regime collapsed its remaining leaders were imprisoned and interrogated for months before the Nuremberg Trials. In this searing work Richard Overy reveals the original transcripts of these little-known interviews with key Nazis: the brutal and unrepentant Goering the selective amnesiac Hess the deliberately evasive Ribbentrop the courteous Speer and the suicidal Ley. For the first time they were forced to examine their actions and speak about the unspeakable. The result is an unprecedented and shocking insight into HitlerâÇÖs henchmen. âÇÖA chilling glimpse into the minds of HitlerâÇÖs chief lieutenantsâÇÖááJ.G. Ballard New Statesman Books of the Year âÇÖEnthralling ... I know of no better book to explain what really motivated the elite of the Third ReichâÇÖááAndrew Roberts Mail on Sunday âÇÖRemarkable and gripping ... the interrogations along with OveryâÇÖs incisive commentary throw light on the dejected cast who had once happily danced to HitlerâÇÖs tuneâÇÖááDavid Stafford The Times âÇÖFascinating ... reveals the mindset of HitlerâÇÖs inner circleâÇÖááIan Kershaw Sunday Telegraph Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War particularly in his books 1939 - Countdown to War Why the Allies Won RussiaâÇÖs War and The Morbid Age. OveryâÇÖs The Dictators: HitlerâÇÖs Germany StalinâÇÖs Russia won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.