Eyewitness accounts, diaries, and archival material help to reconstruct the life of the head of the Nazi propaganda ministry

Goebbels

Reuth, Ralf Georg

Biographies & Memoirs

Harcourt

Historical

Mariner Books

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the most popular soldier of World War II. Under his leadership the German Africa Corps advanced all the way to Egypt. Known as the ‘Desert Fox’, Rommel was considered invincible. That is the story told in the history books. Ralf Georg Reuth paints a different portrait of Erwin Rommel: a picture of a man, who owed hisfame in part to the Nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear. Reuth shows us the image of a soldier who was promoted by Hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end, when he committed suicide at the behest of his Führer. His personal fate is the mirror image of the German tragedy of that time: ‘to have followed the Führer to the end and to believe that one had thereby done one’s patriotic duty.’

Rommel: The End of a Legend

Haus Publishing

Five biographical essays on Rommel's life, including whether he was part of the conspiracy against Hitler

Rommel: The End of a Legend (H Books)

Leaders & Notable People

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the most popular soldier of World War II. Under his leadership the German Afrika Korps advanced all the way to Egypt. Known as the Desert Fox, Rommel was considered invincible. That is the story told in the history books. Ralf Georg Reuth paints a different portrait of Erwin Rommel: a picture of a man who owed his fame in part to Nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear; the image of a soldier, who was promoted by Hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end, when he committed suicide at the behest of his Führer. His personal fate is the mirror image of the German tragedy of that time: to have followed the Führer to the end and to believe that one had thereby done one's patriotic duty.

Rommel: The End of a Legend (Haus Histories)

Erwin Rommel is the best-known German field commander of World War II. Repeatedly decorated for valor during the First World War, he would go on to lead the German Panzer divisions in France and North Africa. Even his British opponents admitted to admiring his apparent courage, chivalry and leadership, and he became known by the nickname "Desert Fox." His death, in October 1944, would give rise to speculation for generations to come on how history should judge him. To many he remains the ideal soldier, but, as Reuth shows, Rommel remained loyal to his Führer until forced to commit suicide, and his fame was largely a creation of the master propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Stripping away the many layers of Nazi and Allied propaganda, Reuth argues that Rommel's life symbolizes the complexity and conflict of the German tragedy: to have followed Hitler into the abyss, and to have considered that to be his duty.

A fresh, stimulating look at Adolf Hitler and his dictatorship throughout the study of ten key aspects. &nbsp; Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg Reuth examines ten aspects of this catastrophe. Among other things, he asks: Was anti-Semitism more pronounced in Germany than elsewhere? Was Versailles really responsible for Hitler's rise and why did the Germans follow a racial fanatic like him? How did his war differ from all others before it? The disturbing answers provide an overall picture that shows Hitler was not the consequence of the depths of German history, but the result of chance, deception, and seduction. This thought-provoking new study takes aim at several of the norms of Hitler scholarship from the past forty years. Reuth interrogates and challenges a range of orthodox views on such topics as how mainstream politicians facilitated Hitler's rise to power, the Führer's infamous pact with Stalin, and the complicity of ordinary Germans in his genocidal tyranny. Eschewing a conventional chronological approach in favor of a forensic analysis of Hitler's mainsprings of action both as chancellor and military commander, Reuth portrays Hitler as the apotheosis of what he argues is a specifically German strain of militarism and imperialism, shifting the focus firmly back to the mindset and modus operandi of Hitler himself. The portrait that emerges is one of a murderous fantasist and political opportunist driven by an all-embracing ideology of racial superiority. Reuth's account courts controversy on a number of points and offers a fascinating counterpoint to much recent scholarship. &nbsp;

Hitler's Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters

Goebbels (German Edition)

History

Europe

Piper

Goebbels: Eine Biographie

Piper Verlag GmbH

Selbst der britische Gegner bewunderte den Mut 
und die ritterliche Kampfführung des als genial 
geltenden »Wüstenfuchses«. Noch heute erscheint 
Erwin Rommel vielen als Inbegriff des vorbildlichen 
deutschen Soldaten. Ralf Georg Reuth 
zeigt auch den anderen Rommel – den Mann, der 
seinem »Führer« bis zum erzwungenen Selbstmord 
treu blieb und dessen Ruhm nicht zuletzt 
eine Schöpfung von Joseph Goebbels war.

Rommel: Das Ende einer Legende

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Goebbels

Goebbels

Rommel: The End of a Legend

Rommel: The End of a Legend (H Books)

Rommel: The End of a Legend (Haus Histories)

Rommel: The End of a Legend

Hitler's Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters

Goebbels (German Edition)

Goebbels: Eine Biographie

Rommel: Das Ende einer Legende