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I Knew Hitler - The Lost Testimony by a Survivor from the Night of the Long Knives (Paperback)
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I Knew Hitler - The Lost Testimony by a Survivor from the Night of the Long Knives (Paperback)
Series: Third Reich from Original Sources
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An insider's account of life with Adolf Hitler - now back in print
for the first time in 75 years First published in 1938 "I Knew
Hitler" is the missing link in the literary trail which traces the
fortunes of Adolf Hitler from Linz to Berlin. There are
surprisingly few personal accounts of life with Hitler from inside
the inner circle during the years before he seized power and
besides Goebbels' diaries Ludecke is by far the most important of
them. Dedicated by its author to the memory of Ernst Roehm, the
publication of this brand new edition means that Ludecke's
explosive memoir is back in print for the first time in 75 years.
Kurt Ludecke was a former confident of Hitler's who had the
misfortune to find himself on the wrong side of the political gulf
which led to the 1934 blood purge better known outside of Germany
as "The Night Of The Long Knives. As the power struggle between the
SS and the SA threatened to engulf him, Hitler finally took
decisive action and was personally involved in the vicious in
fighting which saw the arrest and execution of many senior SA
figures including Roehm himself. Ludecke was a man in the wrong
place at the wrong time and was actually incarcerated twice on
Hitler's orders before finally escaping to Switzerland. For many
years this fascinating and highly readable account of life with
Hitler's inner circle was dismissed by the academic world as a
heavily biased and therefore unreliable as a main primary resource.
However a number of recent scholarly assessments have confirmed
what most historians suspected all along; Ludecke is in fact an
excellent and highly reliable original source. The rehabilitation
of Ludecke is a timely development as he provides the only detailed
account surrounding the actions of Adolf Hitler into the world of
Adolf Hitler as he took the first steps from Landsberg prison to
achieve power through the horse trading following the ill starred
election of 1933. Ludecke also throws a powerful new light on the
events of the Night Of the Long Knives and gives the clearest
indication that we have today that there was indeed a genuine SA
plot to overthrow Hitler and set the party on a more rigorous route
towards a truly National socialist state. Ludecke is indispensible
reading for anyone with an interest in the political history of the
Third Reich.
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