The hangman and his wife : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich
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The hangman and his wife : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich

By Dougherty, Nancy, 1939-2013, author.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, other.

Genre Interviews.

Published [2022] by Alfred A. Knopf, New York

ISBN 9780394543413

Bib Id 2506064

Description 704 p.

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03822cam a22006018i 4500
LCCN
2021-024236
ISBN
9780394543413 (hardcover) $40.00
0394543416
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B Heydrich D
Title
The hangman and his wife : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich
Varying Form of Title
Life and death of Reinhard Heydrich
Publication Information
[2022] by Alfred A. Knopf, New York :
Description
704 p.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Starting out -- The face of National Socialism -- Child of uncertainty -- The honor of an officer -- The honor of a woman -- The great enigma : Heinrich Himmler -- Fate, or "work in relation to life's possibilities" -- Gathering power -- Bitter young men, bright young men : Heydrich's SD -- The evil twins -- The road to Berlin -- The rules of the game -- A lesson in life -- Exercising power -- Transformations of our struggle : the invisible apparat -- The expert on the forms of words -- "Garbage can of the Third Reich" -- The house across the way -- Drawing the line : the Abwehr resistance -- The Night of Broken Glass -- Inside the spider's web -- The second sex in the Third Reich -- A disgrace -- for Germany -- Going to war -- "Perfectly normal men" -- The road to Wannsee -- The Wansee Conference -- Reichsprotektor : Bohemia & Moravia -- The castle -- The fatal crown -- The road to Jungfern-Breschan -- The temple of fear -- Afterwards -- Surviving death and defeat -- The album.
Summary
"A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Interviews

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