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Michael Munn
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In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler's style of cultural governance. Hitler's rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country's greatest stars, whether they were actors, writers, or musicians, could be one of only two things. If they were compliant, they were lauded and awarded status symbols for the regime; but if they resisted - or were simply Jewish - they were traitors to be interned and murdered.
This fascinating analysis offers a shocking portrait of a Hitler shaped by aspirations to Hollywood-style fame, of the correlation between art and ambition, of films used as weapons, and of sexual predilections.
The Führer believed he was an artist, not a politician, and in his Germany politics and culture became one. His celebrity was cultivated and nurtured by Joseph Goebbels, Germany's supreme head of culture. Hitler and Goebbels enjoyed the company of beautiful female film stars, and Goebbels had his own "casting couch". In Germany's version of Hollywood, there were scandals, starlets, secret agents, premieres, and party politics. The Third Reich would launch filmmaker and actress Leni Riefenstahl to prominence by making her its own glorifying documentarian, most famously in The Triumph of the Will, the innovative propaganda film starring Hitler and widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. It is no coincidence that Eva Braun, Hitler's longtime partner and wife for the two days leading up to their joint suicide, was a photographer and in fact shot most of the surviving photographs and film footage of her lover.
This audiobook reveals previously unpublished information about the "Hitler film", which Goebbels envisaged as "the greatest story ever told", although it was ultimately trumped by the dictator's own real-life Wagnerian finale.
©2012, 2013 Michael Munn; Originally published under the title Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by the Robson Press, London, United Kingdom. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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After the failure of the Weimar Republic, the Nazis believed their mission was to "masculinize" life in Germany. Hermann Goering told women, "Take a pot, a dustpan and a broom, and marry a man", but many still became active participants in murder and mayhem. From the Reich Bride Schools through the Bund Deutscher Mädel and the bizarre Lebensborn Aryan breeding programme to the brothels of the Sicherheitsdienst, this book covers the lives of women in the Third Reich, concentrating on those who sought personal power and influence amid the chaos.
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3 out of 5 stars
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People are human
- De Stephen H en 07-04-18
De: Paul Roland
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The Great Escape
- Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world. In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in Budapest's Golden Age of the early 20th century, their flight, and their lives of extraordinary accomplishment, danger, glamour, and poignancy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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very interesting, well-narrated
- De D. Littman en 12-17-06
De: Kati Marton
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When Paris Sizzled
- The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them - one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but no sizzle
- De OzEnigma en 06-01-17
De: Mary McAuliffe
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, good narrator
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
De: Gerald Martin
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The Collaboration
- Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
- De: Ben Urwand
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself - obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Making mountains out of molehills
- De M. S. Cohen en 11-05-13
De: Ben Urwand
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Les Parisiennes
- How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
- De: Anne Sebba
- Narrado por: Polly Stone
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Historical Perspective
- De Lulu en 10-28-16
De: Anne Sebba
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Adolf Hitler
- A Captivating Guide to the Life of the Führer of Nazi Germany
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 2 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Explore the rise of Adolf Hitler. Was Hitler, as Ian Kershaw asked, a natural consequence of German history, or an aberration? Not that Hitler had been in hiding, waiting to attack. The Führer had actually been following an aggressive and savage foreign policy for almost 10 years, and been named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1938.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome little book
- De Bryan T. en 02-02-19
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Stalin
- The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- De: Edvard Radzinsky
- Narrado por: David McCallum
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
The Kremlin intrigues, the private worlds of the Soviet Empire's ruling class, Radzinsky thrillingly brings them to life. And the riddle of that most cold-blooded of leaders, a man for whom nothing was sacred in his pursuit of absolute might, and perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history, is solved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Book About a Great Tyrant
- De Moon Man en 05-01-05
De: Edvard Radzinsky
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- De: Gary Cox
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a capitalista biography of Sartre
- De Anonymous User en 01-24-20
De: Gary Cox
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- De: Anne C. Heller
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 209
Ayn Rand is the author of two phenomenally best-selling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over 12 million copies in the United States alone. Through them, she built a right-wing cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the 1960s and '70s. Her defenses of radical individualism and of selfishness as a "capitalist virtue" have permanently altered the American cultural landscape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of both Rand and her era
- De Mark en 08-07-10
De: Anne C. Heller
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Without Lying Down
- De: Cari Beauchamp
- Narrado por: Holly Palance
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from the early teens through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter - male or female - for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and remains the only woman to win two Academy Awards for original screenwriting (The Big House and The Champ).
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De Robert Wallace en 03-19-19
De: Cari Beauchamp
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After the Romanovs
- Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all that Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation, such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mildly interesting story of Russians exiles
- De Conrad Hastler en 05-20-22
De: Helen Rappaport
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Eva Peron
- De: Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is 15. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Perõn being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire them to revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written and researched, and very interesting.
- De Dolce Momento en 10-19-24
De: Nicholas Fraser, y otros
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Hitler: History in an Hour
- De: Rupert Colley
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
History for busy people. Hitler in an Hour is the concise biography of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.Covering Hitler’s early life, military service in World War I and eventual rise to power, first as the leader of the Nazi party and then to head of state, Hitler in an Hour covers all the key events the life of the 20th century’s most infamous dictator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Value
- De Slade en 12-13-12
De: Rupert Colley
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High Society
- The Life of Grace Kelly
- De: Donald Spoto
- Narrado por: George K Wilson
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In just seven years---from 1950 through 1956---Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in 11 movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented actresses and iconic beauties.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Find a better Grace Kelly biography, I'd skip this
- De Daniel en 08-20-12
De: Donald Spoto
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Lenin
- The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Aris
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 598
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 507
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 494
Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's unique biography - the first in English in nearly two decades - is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century but a portrait of Lenin the man. Unexpectedly, Lenin was someone who loved nature, hunting, and fishing and could identify hundreds of species of plants, a despotic ruler whose closest ties and friendships were with women.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lenin totally took an extra piece of that cake.
- De John Gathly en 05-14-19
De: Victor Sebestyen
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Indian Summer
- The Secret History of the End of an Empire
- De: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, igniting the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through the most prominent figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such an interesting piece of History made easy
- De Eric en 01-23-12
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Heinrich Himmler
- The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career
- De: Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 243
Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich Himmler. As the head of the feared SS, Himler supervised the extermination of millions. Here is the story of how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism, astrology, and homeopathic medicine before finally turning to the “science” of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A new and insightful look at a Monster
- De Doc Pearce en 07-26-13
De: Roger Manvell, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- cletocat
- 03-20-18
Hitler the psychopathic artist
Hitler was the star of his own " movie" with himself in the starting role and Wagner providing the sound track. Unfortunately, tens of millions of extras die in the process and much of the world was left in ruins.
Another side of the Third Reich with much new and fascinating insight into one of history's most malign minds.
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