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1939 was a glorious year for Hermann Goering. He spent it
entertaining dignitaries visiting the Third Reich, attending galas,
going on official visits, giving rousing speeches at factories and
military parades, and indulging in his love of fine art, rich
cuisine and sumptuous clothes and jewels. Ever vain, pompous and
ambitious, in 1939 he attained the summit of his power and
popularity when Hitler, speaking to a packed Reich Chancellery on 1
September, named him his successor. Goering's rise was inseparable
from that of his Luftwaffe. As commander-in-chief, he basked in the
glory of the Condor Legion's victory in Spain in April 1939 and the
Luftwaffe's decisive role in the Blitzkrieg of Poland in September.
From these encounters, the Luftwaffe emerged as the world's most
feared and respected air force-but beyond the trappings of victory,
there were deep-seated flaws. Fearing their exposure against a more
powerful enemy, Goering did not want Germany to go to war with
Great Britain and France. Hermann Goering: From Madrid to Warsaw
and Beyond, 1939 is a photographic chronicle of a momentous year in
the life of the Luftwaffe's commander-in-chief, showing him at his
most happy and self-confident, and equally, at his most anxious
about what the future might bring.
'Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser's Military
Elite' covers the era 1847-1955-heavily illustrated with over 500
images of German Emperor Wilhelm II's First World War marshals and
generals, emphasizing their lives, careers, battles, and campaigns.
The book covers both Western and Eastern Fronts, as well as the
Balkans, Baltics, Middle, and Far East. It is also heavily detailed
with maps, cartoons, graphics, and photographs, plus descriptions
of strategies, tactics, weapons, statistics on all losses, and
results. Period cartoons add to the vast array of photographic
sources worldwide: United States National Archives and Library of
Congress, Washington and College Park, Maryland; Imperial War
Museum London: Bundesarchiv, Bonn, and also His Majesty's own
albums at Doorn House, Holland, many of them previously
unpublished. German Crown Prince Wilhelm and Bavarian Crown Prince
Rupprecht, all German Chiefs of General Staff and War Ministers are
detailed as well, plus all top Allied leaders and commanders:
Woodrow Wilson, John J. Pershing; David Lloyd George, King George
V, Sir Douglas Haig, and Sir John French among them; Tsar Nicholas
II, Grand Duke Michael, and more; Frenchmen Henri Petain, Joffre,
Foch, and Weygand; as well as those of Serbia, Italy, Greece,
Rumania, and Bulgaria.
This book is the first ever illustrated study devoted exclusively
to the famous Mercedes 770K parade car used by Hitler during most
of the 1930s, and into the 1940s, both in peace and war. Culled
from the rich photo archives of Daimler-Benz - and the Hermann
Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Eva Braun
Hitler albums on deposit in the U.S. - this study depicts the 770K
in fascinating images and detailed text. Volume 1 in this series
covered the Mercedes-Benz G-4 cross-country touring car also used
by Hitler and other top Nazi leaders.
The year 1938-39 was when Hitler set out on the road of pre-war
bloodless conquests, which led to the actual shooting combat over
Poland in September 1939. Both willing and unwilling, Hermann
Goering was his main acolyte in achieving the peaceful military
occupations of Austria and the Czech-German Sudetenland in 1938,
followed by that of Bohemia and Moravia, plus Memel in 1939. Prior
to this, Goering played perhaps the key role in the Nazi overthrow
of the Third Reich's conservative military and foreign services,
being named field marshal as his reward. Having helped Franco win
the Spanish Civil War, Goering's Air Force Legion Kondor also
returned home victorious, having acquired valuable air war
experience in aces, aircraft, and tactics, which served Goering
well in the first phase of World War II. A major factor in making
the Allies back down to Germany at the infamous Munich Pact
Conference, Goering's Luftwaffe was the key bargaining chip that
gained these unprecedented territorial acquisitions for Hitler--all
without a shot being fired. He also helped achieve alliances with
Fascist Slovakia and Italy.
This book is the first ever illustrated study on the often
photographed - but never fully explained - mechanical marvel, the
Mercedes-Benz G-4 cross-country touring car, the vehicle that
carried Adolf Hitler across much of Europe before and during World
War II. Culled from the rich photo archives of Daimler-Benz, as
well as from captured German albums in U.S. archives, this work
depicts the G-4 in fascinating images and detailed text. Volume 2
will cover the Daimler-Benz 770K Grosser Mercedes.
In 1919, Hermann Goering went to Denmark as a stunt flyer, then on
to Sweden to fly passengers, one of whom introduced the daredevil
to his future first wife, a then married Swedish Countess; they
scandalized Stockholm. Goering joined the Nazi Party, as commander
of the early SA Stormtroopers. In the celebrated Beer Hall Putsch
of 1923, Goering was severely wounded, and fled. Thus began a
four-year exile in which Goering became a practicing morphine
addict in Austria, Italy, and Sweden, and was committed to an
insane asylum in a straitjacket. Goering returned to Germany under
a political amnesty, and blackmailed Hitler into putting him up for
election to the Reichstag as a Nazi candidate in 1928. He won, and
four years later, was elected its President. He helped convince
Germany's power elite to name Hitler Reich Chancellor on 30 January
1933. Taking over Prussia's police force-and during the upheaval of
the Reichstag fire and trial-Goering ruthlessly smashed all
non-Nazi parties. Then came the inter-Party Blood Purge of the
Night of the Long Knives of 30 June 1934 that Goering directed in
Berlin. This cemented his position as the Fuhrer's
second-in-command, after having been declared insane!
Volkswagen From Nazi Peoples Car to New Beetle. This is the
exciting, fascinating saga of the creation of the worlds most
popular car, the famed Volkswagen Beetle, under the Nazi regime
ofGerman dictator Adolf Hitler, who played a pivotal role in its
design, construction, and marketing during 1933-38. It is also the
story of the two Drs. Porsches who created it Ferdinand, Sr., and
his son, Ferry as well as Dr. Robert Leys German Labor Frontthat
built it, and Adolf Huhnleins Nazi Motor Corps that helped
popularize driving and made motoring a reality in the Third Reich.
When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to
mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who
cheated the hangman's noose at Nuremberg by committing suicide just
hours before he was due to be hanged. Next up might be the image of
his powerful German air force in the Second World War---the
Luftwaffe---bombing defenseless European cities and towns in the
early part of the war, until it was defeated by the British Royal
Air Force in the epic Battle of Britain in 1940. Next might come
Goring the debauched art collector who pirated captured collections
all over Nazi Europe during the Occupation years. All of these
images are correct, but here we see another Hermann Goring: the
slim, dashing fighter pilot and combat ace of an earlier struggle,
the Great War, or World War I of 1914-18, which he began as an
infantry officer fighting the French Army in the 1914 Battle of the
Frontiers. During a hospitalization, his friend Bruno Lorzer
convinced him to become an aerial observer-photographer,
photographing the mighty French fortress of Verdun. He did, and
began these never-before-seen personal photo albums of men and
aircraft at war: up close.
JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and
his reelection campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He
began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day
swing across the important state of Texas. It was going
unexpectedly well when shots were fired into his triumphant
motorcade in downtown Dallas that ripped history apart, changing it
forever The assassination of American President John F. Kennedy in
1963 came at the very height of both the Cold War following the
Second World War and the Pax Americana that was thought to exist at
the war's conclusion in 1945. The United States and its allies
possessed a far greater number of nuclear weapons than their Soviet
adversaries, but the latter could unleash World War 3 and a nuclear
Armageddon that would destroy them all. The sudden and totally
unexpected murder in broad daylight in an American city of one of
the most popular presidents in history was the murder mystery of
the 20th century. The Cold War could have become hot and nuclear
within minutes. The murderer had to be found and vital questions
had to be answered quickly. Who did it, why and who ordered
Kennedy's assassination? Was the deed part of a conspiracy:
foreign, domestic or both? Were none of the these questions part of
the bloody puzzle and was it entirely possible that only one man
was responsible? The questions remain to this very day and Dallas
Fifty Years On: The Murder of John F. Kennedy reveals sensational
new evidence, eyewitness accounts and top secret documentation.
German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most
controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded
history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of
enemies, both foreign and domestic: German and Russian Communists,
political and military opponents, rival Nazi leaders, and the
intelligence services of the Allied powers, among them the British
SOE. Dozens of attempts were made on his life over the course of
two decades, including a bomb explosion in his own headquarters-and
yet, he survived them all. This is the story of how he did so, as
told via the exciting sagas of Sepp Dietrich and his SS, as well as
of German government security leader Johann Rattenhuber and his
Reich Security Service, the RSD. Here we see the measures used to
protect Hitler in public, his cars, planes, trains, homes, military
headquarters scattered across conquered Europe, and during personal
appearances. Ironically, of course, in the end Hitler decided to
take his own life in the infamous Berlin bunker, but this is the
story of how a man that so many people wanted dead managed to stay
alive for so long in volatile circumstances.
With the Great War (1914-18) Centennial beginning in 2014, this is
a comprehensive study of Prussian/German railways in peace and
strife, 1825-1918 -men, rails, lines, engines, cars, and stations.
They all played a crucial part in Germany's Wars of Unification
during 1864-71, the interwar years, and the final catastrophe that
toppled many crowns, thrones, and states, all told from a railroad
perspective, a unique way of exploring the history of the 19th-20th
Centuries. Here the reader will also find the sagas of the other
railways aligned both for and against the Second Reich:
Berlin-Baghdad, Trans-Siberian, Hejaz, African, Italian, American,
and more. Presented also are notable individual historic trains,
such as those of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, hospital
conveyances, differing gauges, railroad guns, armored trains,
Lenin's infamous "sealed train" through Germany to Russia, and much
more. Here, too, are the famous men who made "training" a
successful wartime tool: banker Bleichroder, soldiers von Moltke,
raider Lawrence of Arabia, Bulow and Hindenburg, and how French
Marshal Foch's railroad dining car became the focal point of the
Great War's final ending.From the very first German passenger
service to the Russian Civil War, this is epic railroading as a
military force.
In March 1935, Goering unveiled to the world his formerly "black,'
secret German Air Force, the later dreaded Luftwaffe. That April,
he married his second wife, a popular German stage actress, and in
May solidified Germany's pre-1939 surprisingly good relations with
neighbouring Poland. In March 1936, the Luftwaffe took part in the
peaceful occupation of the formerly French-occupied Rhineland, and
by the end of the year, Goering was also the recognized economic
dictator of the Third Reich via heading the Nazi Four Year Plan. A
State Visit to Rome in January 1937 made him a main player
regarding the future Reich alliance with Fascist Italy and that
November, he hosted Europe's largest hunting exposition of 50 years
at Berlin. Overshadowing all of this, however, was the top-secret
Hossbach war conference, at which Hitler announced his intention go
to war by 1943 in order to seize Russian territory for an expanded
German empire in the east. In all of the above, Goering was the
main player, second only to Hitler, especially regarding the
economy and the air force.
Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) was the last German
Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and
the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was
the eldest grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to
many monarchs and princes of Europe, three notable contemporary
relations being his first cousins King George V of the United
Kingdom, Marie of Romania, Queen consort of Romania and second
cousin to Tsar Nicholas II of the House of Romanov, the last ruler
of the Russian Empire before the Russian Revolution of 1917 which
deposed the monarchy.He became monarch in 1888 and ruled in peace
for twenty-five years. Wilhelm's father had been the hero of three
wars and his mother the Princess Royal of Great Britain. When his
father died prematurely of throat cancer, Wilhelm succeeded him at
age twenty-nine and became the icon of the new 'Wilhelminian' age.
Germany excelled in commerce, agriculture, trade, science, cars,
the arts, and medicine. Already having Continental Europe's
greatest army, Wilhelm set about winning world power via overseas
colonies and the building of a vast Imperial High Seas Fleet that
rivalled Britain's.Eventually, he was defeated by the combined
forces of the UK, US, France and Russia, and driven into exile by
the red revolution. He remained politically active in exile,
pressing for a return to the monarchy up to the time of his death
in 1941.This is a fresh look at a much maligned figure, including
his relationships with Bismarck, Hindenburg, Tirpitz, King Edward
VII and Tsar Nicholas II, all on the precipice of global change.
Was Wilhelm a visionary, a fool, or both?
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