Tales from Spandau : Nazi criminals and the Cold War
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Tales from Spandau : Nazi criminals and the Cold War
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c2007
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"First published 2007. First paperback edition 2008"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 351-370
Includes index
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Description
Sentenced to long prison sentences at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, seven of Adolf Hitler's closest associates - Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Walther Funk, Konstantin von Neurath, and Baldur von Schirach - were to have become forgotten men at Berlin's Spandau Prison. Instead they became the focus of a bitter four decade tug-of-war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies - a dispute on the fault line of the Cold War itself which drew in heads-of-state, military strategists, powerful businessmen, vocal church leaders, old-world aristocrats, international spies, and neo-Nazis. Drawing on long-secret records from four countries, Norman J. W. Goda provides an exciting new perspective on the terrifying shadow thrown by Nazi Germany on the Cold War years, and how that shadow helped to influence the Cold War itself.
Table of Contents
- 1. A tomb for the living
- 2. An enduring institution
- 3. Von Neurath's ashes: the battle over memory
- 4. Hitler's successor: a tale of two admirals
- 5. The foiled escape: Albert Speer's twenty years
- 6. 'I regret nothing': the problem of Rudolf Hess.
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