of thè Nazi Elite -v\ . t -. '• ' • > 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' [Albert Speer] 215 Document2 Hitler's Women [Karl Brandt] 258 Document3 The New Feudalism [Hans Lammers] 272 Document 4 Hitler thè Warlord [Alfred Jodl] 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 [ Joachim von Ribbentrop] 318 Document 9 Hitler's 'chess game of power politics' [Albert Speer] 323 Document 10 OKW at War [Wilhelm Keitel] 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 [Rudolf Hess 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 [Franz von Papen] 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 Robert Ley [Robert 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' [Wilhelm Frick] 501 Document 31 Halking in a dream' [ Joachim von Ribbentrop] 509 Document 32 'very undesirable activities' [Heinz Guderian] 527 Germany's Future 535 Document 33 Rebuilding thè Reich [Robert Ley] 538 Document 34 Schacht's New Germany [Hjalmar Schacht] 547 Notes 557 Bibliography and Sources 622 Transcript Sources 632 Index 637.