Ebook: Hitler: the Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION BY JOHN TO LAND; FOREWORD TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION; INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION; LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM HERMANN GOERING; I Harvard's Gift to Hitler; II Tristan in the Thierschstrasse; III One Side to a Statue; IV Particular Generals; V Fiasco at the Feldherrnhalle; VI Twilight at Landsberg; VII Hitler and Henry VIII; VIII The Bohemian at the Brown House; IX Geli Raubal; X Lohengrin Prevails; XI Disillusionment at Nuremberg; XII Circus at the Chancellery; XIII A Murderer's Welcome; XIV The Last Chord.;Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler's fanatical theories and ideas hardened, however, he surrounded himself with rabid extremists such as Goering, Hess, and Goebbels, and Hanfstaengl became estranged from him. But with the Nazi's major unexp.