The Nazi Elite

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Martin Bormann: Hitler’s Secretary....Pages 7-17
Richard Walther Darré: The Blood and Soil Ideologue....Pages 18-27
Gottfried Feder: The Failed Policy-Maker....Pages 28-38
Hans Frank: Party Jurist and Governor-General in Poland....Pages 39-47
Joseph Goebbels: The Propagandist....Pages 48-61
Hermann Goering: Second Man in the Third Reich....Pages 62-73
Rudolf Hess: Deputy Führer....Pages 74-84
Reinhard Heydrich: Security Technocrat....Pages 85-97
Heinrich Himmler: Reichsführer — SS....Pages 98-112
Adolf Hitler: The Führer....Pages 113-132
Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Chief of Reich Security Main Office....Pages 133-143
Robert Ley: The Brown Collectivist....Pages 144-154
Otto Ohlendorf: Non-conformist, SS Leader and Economic Functionary....Pages 155-164
Joachim von Ribbentrop: From Wine Merchant to Foreign Minister....Pages 165-172
Ernst Julius Röhm: Chief of Staff of the SA and Indispensible Outsider....Pages 173-182
Alfred Rosenberg: National Socialism’s ‘Chief Ideologue’?....Pages 183-193
Fritz Sauckel: Plenipotentiary for the Mobilisation of Labour....Pages 194-201
Baldur von Schirach: Student Leader, Hitler Youth Leader, Gauleiter in Vienna....Pages 202-211
Albert Speer: Cultural and Economic Management....Pages 212-223
Gregor Strasser: Nazi Party Organiser or Weimar Politician?....Pages 224-234
Otto Strasser: Nationalist Socialism versus National Socialism....Pages 235-244
Fritz Todt: From Motorway Builder to Minister of State....Pages 245-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-259