The Artist Within the Warlord - An Adolf Hitler You've Never Known

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Photos and Maps
	Adolf Hitler and Hermann Giesler on the bank of the Danube
	A watercolor sketch by young Adolf Hitler of the Karlkirche in Vienna
	A 1925 sketch of Hitle'rs plan of a proposed German National Art Museum
	Hermann Giesler
	Hitler and his entourage enter the Paris Opera House
	Hitler and his entourage at Napoleon's crypt
	Hitler and his entourage at the gates of the dome des Invalides
	Hitler and Arno Breker in front of the Eiffel Tower
	Hitler with Hermann Goering at Wolfsschlucht
	Vyacheslav Molotov, Joachim von Ribbentropp, Joseph Stalin
	Adolf Hitler and Josef Beck
	Marshal Jozef Pilsudski
	Jozef Pilsudski, Gusvav Orlicz-Dreszer in Warsaw, 1926
	Edward Rydz-Śmigły
	Yugoslav's regent Prince Paul with Adolf Hitler
	Ferdinand Schoerner
	Dušan Simović, King Peter II, Court Minister Radoje Knežević
	Map, 1940
	German panzers in Belgium, May 1940
	Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl
	German Gebirgsjagers in the mountains around Narvik
	Franz Halder, Wilhelm Keitel, Erich von Manstein
	Wilhelm Keitel
	Erich von Manstein
	May 14, 1940, 1st Panzer Regiment crosses pontoon bridge over the Meuse at Floing, near Sedan
	Positions of the strategic objectives
	The German target map of Eben Emael
	General Kurt Student
	Tauchpanzer III
	Map - Operation Sea Lion
	Marshal Petain, Adolf Hitler, Paul Schmidt, Joachim von Ribbentrop, October 24, 1940
	Francisco Franco
	Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler in Hendaye, October 23, 1940
	Museum visitors
	German troops at the Soviet state border marker on X-Day, 22 June, 1941
	Soviet prisoners captured by German forces during Operation Barbarossa
	Wehrmacht soldiers pull a car, fall 1941
	Map - Giesler's recreation of the map Hitler made for his battle plan
	General Heinz Guderian, September 3, 1941
	German mechanized troops rest at Stariza, Russia on November 21, 1941
	Viktor Suvorov
	Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky
	Field Marshal Wilhelm List with Adolf Hitler along a path at Werwolf, Winniza, Ukraine
	Adolf Hitler study maps with General Erich von Manstein, General Kurt Zeitzler, General Ewald von Kleist, General Theodor Busse
	Adolf Hitler's workroom/office in Wolfsschanze
	The radio control center in a blockhouse at Wolfsschanze headquarters
	Dr. Karl Brandt
	The City Hall in Stockholm
	General Staff Franz Halder at the High Command Trial, 1948
	Weather station on Mount Elbrus, 1942
	German soldiers man a position at the Wolchow battlefield, near Leningrad
	Map - The situation on the Eastern Front at Leningrad and Wolchow from May 1942 till January 1943
	Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch
	Adolf Hitler with his dog Blondi
	Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch
	Dr. Siegfried Handloser
	Claus von Stauffenberg on July 15, 1944
	The scene in the barrack where the bomb went of on July 20th, 1944
	Map of the room
	Adolf Hitler with Rear Admiral Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer
	Adolf Hitler with Albert Speer
	Martin Bormann
	Erich Fellgiebel
	Erich Kempka, Johann Rattenhuber, Bruno Gesche
	The communications center at the Wolf's Lair
	Ludwig Beck
	Werner von Haeften
	Claus von Stauffenberg mounted on a horse
	German officers at Bendlerblock on July 20, 1944
	General Friedrich "Fritz" Thiele
	Colonel General Friedrich Fromm
	Major Otto Ernst Remer
	Claus von Stauffenberg with Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
	Helmuth Stieff
	The Dining Hall at the Berghof
	Schloss Klessheim in Salzburg, Austria
	General Hans von Oster
	General Friedrich Olbricht
	Admiral Wilhelm Canaris
	Hans von Dohnanyi
	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
	Wilhelm Leuschner appearing at the People's Court
	General Hans Speidel
	Guenther von Kluge
	General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
	General Helmuth Stieff faces the People's Court after confessing to his role in the July 20th assassination plot
	Adolf Hitler at a weapons demonstration at Klessheim Palace on July 7th, 1944
	Henning von Tresckow
	Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach with Friedrich Paulus in 1942
	Colonel General Alfred Jodl
	A German Junkers Ju 52 3/m approaching Stalingrad, 1942
	Hans Ulrich Rudel sits in his Stuka dive bomber plane
	The NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1943
	Hans Ulrich Rudel
	Hans Ulrich Rudel receives the Swords for his Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves from Adolf Hitler, November 25, 1943
	Hans Ulrich Rudel, April 1945
	Hans Ulrich Rudel, Evota Peron, Juan Peron
	Hans Ulrich Rudel attending a meeting of the DRP (Deutsche Reichspartei), Bayreuth, September 2, 1953
	Tiergarten "Zoo" Tower, Berlin
	Hermann Giesler, Adolf Hitler
	Adolf Hitler, Linz reconstruction scale model
	Entrance lobby of the Führerhotel in Linz
	Dresden following the four separate bombing raids of February 13-15, 1945
	Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Berlin, Robert Ritter von Greim, Franz Reuss, Job Odebrecht, Theodor Busse
	Arno Breker
	Adolf Hitler, 1937
	Adolf Hitler, Julius Schaub, Albert Speer
	Adolf Hitler's study at the Berghof
Preface
Introduction
	Hitler the Artist
	Hitler the Military Commander
Who was Hermann Giesler?
Chapter 1. With Adolf Hitler in Paris
	An Invitation to paris
	The Importance of the Eiffel Tower
	Hitler Visits Napoleon's Crypt
	Hitler & His Artists
	Hitler & Breker at the Eiffel Tower
	"I Want Peace"
	German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Chapter 2. Fateful Decisions fo Invade Poland & Soviet Russia
	Hitler's Pact with Stalin
	Why Consensus Moves Failed
	Russian-Soviet Timing and Tactics
	The Political Future of Europe
	Stalin & Britain Destabilize the Balkans
	Jozef Beck Refuses to See Reason on Danzig
	Marshal Jozef Pilsudski: Poland's Nationalist Dreamer
	British & Soviet Machinations Across the Balkans
Chapter 3. How Adolf Hitler Planned the May 1940 Western Offensive
	A Plan for the West in All its Details
	A Plethora of Maps Show Success After Success
	The Dunkirk "Miracle"
	More Thoughts on Hitler
	Keitel & Jodl Explain
	Ahead of the Allies: Narvik
	May 1940: Giesler's Recollections
	The Controversy: Keitel vs. Halder
	The Stunning Victory at Fort Eben-Emael
	Special Innovations
Chapter 4. Why Operation Sea Lion was Never Launched
	Plan of Attack
	August 1942, Fuehrer HQ, Winniza
	Lunch at Deutelmoser's Tavern in Munich
	Berghof: 1941
	Franco's Lukewarm Commitment to Germany
	Why Guernica? The Politics of Propaganda
	Barbarossa's Saga
Chapter 5. Hitler Strikes First with Operation Barbarossa
	Hitler Reveals His Reasoning
	Outsmarted by the Russians
	Strategy: Leningrad, Moscow or Kiev?
	M-Day: Stalin's Mobilization
Chapter 6. Inside Hitler's Secret Military Headquarters East, 1942
	Wolfsschanze -— Winter 1941/1942
	Hitler Envisions Europe's Future
	Werwolf — Summer/Fall 1942
	Hitler Needs a Creative Outlet
	Traitor Turns Prosecution Witness
Chapter 7. Hitler Discloses Hidden Treachery at the Front
	Hitler Reveals High-Level Sabotage
	Hitler's Intended Retirement Home
	A Fantastic Storyteller
	Trusted Officer Betrays His Oath
Chapter 8. Valkyrie: The Final Plot Against Adolf Hitler
	Giesler Learns of the Bombing
	The Kaltenbrunner Reports
	Giesler Reflects on the Role of Speer
	The People's Court
	Giesler Remembers Martin Bormann
	Previous Assassination Attempts
Chapter 9. Valkyrie: The Story
	Giesler Details the 1944 Attack on Hitler
	The Worst of the Treason
	A Day at the Bendlerblock: The Events of July 20, 1944 in Dramatic Detail
	Remer's Decisive Move
	Alea Iacta Est
Chapter 10. Valkyrie: The Last Circle
	Giesler Recalls Past Behaviors of the Traitors
	Treason in the Abwehr and Army Group Center
	Treason in the West
	Hans Speidel: The Man Who Lost D-Day?
	The People's Court
	Old Line Prussian
Chapter 11. Methods & Morals of the Traitors
	Hitler Critiques the Plot's Lack of Substance
	Jodl: The "Colonel General"
Chapter 12. Jodl Looks Back on Stalingrad; Hitler Faces Unconditional Surrender
	Jodl Talks About Stalingrad
	Need For a Corridor
	Jodl at Nuremberg
	Hitler Seeks a Successor
	"We Will Win the War"
	German Newspaper Describes Heroic Effort at Stalingrad
	Hans Ulrich Rudel: The Man Who Might Have Been Fuehrer
	The Warrior Emerges
	Perilous Fortune
	After the War
	Defense of the Capital
Chapter 13. Farewell Berlin
	Creative Tasks of the Future
	Linz Model Presented to Hitler
	A Dream Realized
	Difficulties with Albert Speer
	Götterdämmerung at Headquarters
	Rudel Gets Personal Attention
	After Terrible News, Giesler Bids Farewell
	A Letter from Breker
	A Reich of Art & Culture
Glossary of German Words
About the Translators