Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-1945

Soenke Neitzel

ISBN 10: 1844157059 / ISBN 13: 9781844157051

Published by Frontline Books, 2007

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Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-1945
• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844157059
• ISBN 13: 9781844157051
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: LikeNew
• Weight: 1.72 pounds

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Synopsis

Between 1942 and 1945, MI-19, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, created a number of Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres in and around London. The most important of these centres was at Trent Park, in North London. Sophisticated tapping equipment was installed, and secret gramophone recordings were made of conversations between German general staff officers. In these transcripts, the officers reflect on how they thought the war was progressing, and the direction of German politics and strategy. The officers discussed the July Plot of 1944, the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, collaboration with the enemy, and their experience of German war crimes. The editor has written biographies of all of the officers who appear in the transcripts, and has meticulously researched the validity of their assertions.

Review

"A goldmine of information about what the German High Command privately thought of the war, Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and each other. . . . Attempts to suggest that genocide was solely the responsibility of the SS and Nazi fanatics, and not widespread across the whole Wehrmacht, completely collapse before the evidence of these recordings."--Daily Mail

"An outstanding work."--Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung