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The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life (Paperback)
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The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of
a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been
sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of
what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of
cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover
the life of one Dr Robert Griesinger from Stuttgart. Who was he?
What had his life been - and how had it ended? Lee reveals the
strange life of a man whose ambition propelled him to become part
of the Nazi machinery of terror. He discovers unexpected ancestors
in New Orleans, untold stories of SS life and family fragmentation.
As Lee delves deeper, Griesinger's responsibility as an active
participant in Nazi crimes becomes clearer. Dr Robert Griesinger's
name is not infamous. But to understand the inner workings of the
Third Reich, we need to know not just its leaders, but the ordinary
Nazis who made up its ranks. Revealing how Griesinger's choices
reverberate into present-day Germany, and among descendants of
perpetrators, Lee raises potent questions about blame, manipulation
and responsibility. A historical detective story and a gripping
account of one historian's hunt for answers, The SS Officer's
Armchair is at once a unique addition to our understanding of Nazi
Germany and a chilling reminder of how such regimes are made not by
monsters, but by ordinary people.
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