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PI \(>l IN' Contents

List of Illustrations XÌÌÌ Acknowledgements XVÌ Preface xvii Abbreviations xxì

Part I Interrogations: an Introduction 1

Outlaw Country 3 The Criminals 25 The Charges 43 Asking thè Questions 57 The Absentees: Hitler, Himmler, Bormann 93 Selective Amnesia? The Case of Hess 115 The Helpful Speer 129 The Unrepentant Goerìng MI The Limits of Responsibility: Strategies of Denial 155 Confessing to Genocìde 175 *I hope they hang ali': Final Retribution 201

Part II Interrogations: thè Transcripts 209

Note on thè Transcripts 211 x Contents

Perspectives on thè Fuehrer 213

Document 1 thè driving force' [] 215 Document2 Hitler's Women [Karl Brandt] 258 Document3 The New Feudalism [Hans Lammers] 272 Document 4 Hitler thè Warlord [] 276

'The world's worst criminal': Goering in thè Third Reich 285

Document 5 A Souvenir from Monte Cassino [Hermann Goering] 288 Document 6 The Commander-in-Chief [Hermann Goering] 296 Document 7 Conquest by Telephone [Hermann Goering] 307 Document 7b Vote 'No' if you dare [Albert Goering] 312

Waging War 315

Document 8 Ribbentrop, Hitler and War [ ] 318 Document 9 Hitler's 'chess game of power politics' [Albert Speer] 323 Document 10 OKW at War [] 335

Genocide 353

Document li The Fuehrer Order [Dieter Wisliceny] 355 Document 12 A Morbid Accounting [Dieter Wisliceny] 361 Document 13 'incredible things at Auschwitz' 371 [Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak] Document 14 A Doctor at Dachau [Franz Blaha] 374 Document 15 Auschwitz-Birkenau [Rudolf Hoessl 381 Document 16 Demarcation Dispute [Otto Moli and Rudolf Hoess] 387

The Hess Case 401

Document 17 'I have lost my memory' 404 [ and Hermann Goering] Document 18 The Young Ladies [Rudolf Hess, 407 Ingeborg Sperrand Hildegarde Fatti] Document 19 Hhe science of psychiatry is sound' [Rudolf Hess] 414 Contents xi

The von Papen Case: Resistance and Compliance 421

Document 20 'a way out of thè mess': von Papen 424

and Hitler in 1933 [] Document 21 vthis problem of responsibility' [Franz von Papen] 431

Albert Speer: True Confessions? 447

Document 22 Speer thè Expert [Albert Speer] 449

Document 23 Sixty Acts of Treason [Albert Speer] 453

Document 24 Speer thè Assassin [Dietrich Stani] 460

Document 25 Special Pleading [Albert Speer] 468

Document 26 'not a concern of mine' [Albert Speer] 471

Robert Ley: Profile of a Suicide 477

Document 27 The Testament of Ley [] 480

Document 28 Ley's Dialogue with thè Dead [Robert Ley] 487

Document 29 Confessions of an Anti-semite [Robert Ley] 491

Obeying Orders: Complicity and Denial 499

Document 30 'not a dangerous person' [] 501

Document 31 Halking in a dream' [ Joachim von Ribbentrop] 509

Document 32 'very undesirable activities' [] 527

Germany's Future 535

Document 33 Rebuilding thè Reich [Robert Ley] 538

Document 34 Schacht's New Germany [] 547

Notes 557

Bibliography and Sources 622

Transcript Sources 632

Index 637