The book by award-winning historian Richard Overy, Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite, is the gripping true story of the interviews with Nazi architects after World War II. How can one understand what caused the actions of those in the Third Reich? What drove them to commit such atrocities in the name of the Führer? In 1945, as the Nazi regime was collapsing, its remaining leaders were imprisoned and interrogated for months before the Nuremberg Trials. In this revealing work, Richard Overy unveils the authentic excerpts of these little-known interviews with key Nazis: the harsh and unrepentant Göring, the selectively 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 talk about the unspeakable. The result is an unprecedented and shocking look into Hitler's collaborators.
Richard Overy has dedicated much of his distinguished career to studying the intellectual, social, and military ideas that shaped the devastations of World War II, particularly in his books 1939 - Countdown to War, Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, and The Morbid Age. His book The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.
Pages: 672, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm
