An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office (George L. Mosse Series In Modern European Cultural and ... and Intellectual History (Paperback))

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by  Michael Wildt

AN UNCOMPROMISING GENERATION
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An Uncompromising
Generation
The Nazi Leadership of the
Reich Security Main Office
Michael Wildt
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TOM LAMPERT
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1. Nationa1sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schut1..statl'el. Reichssicherht"itshauptantt-
1"tistory. 1. (.lcrmany-Politics and government-19~3-1945. 3. National socialism-l·tist<)ry.
4. Nazis-Biography. I. Lampert, Tom. 1962- II. Title. 111. Series: George L. Mosse series in
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
IX
List of Abbreviations
XI
Acknowledgments
XIII
Introduction to the English Edition
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PART 1.
GENERATION
The Experience of War
1 21
Student Radicalism
2 37
3 A Young German Elite: The Black Hand in Leipzig 56
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4 1933
PART 2.
INSTITUTION
Conceptualizing the Reich Security Main Office 125
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6 Structure and Staff 165
PART 3.
WAR
7 Poland, 1939: The Experience of Racist Mass Murder 217
8 Expulsion, 1940 242
9 Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union 268
10 Zenith and Decline 308
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EPILOGUE
Postwar: Back in Civil Society
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12 Prosecution
Conclusion 425
Notes
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Index
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Otto Ohlendorf
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Bruno Streckenbach 22
Dr. Karl Gengenbach 46
Erich Ehrlinger 49
Dr. Martin Sandberger 51
Dr. Heinz Grafe 57
Dr. Wilhelm Spengler 61
Dr. Erwin Weinmann 103
Dr. Hans Nockemann 107
Reinhard Heydrich 132
Werner Best 135
Walter Schellenberg 154
ArthurNebe 173
Paul Werner 179
Dr. Walter Heess
183
Heinrich Millier 188
Dr. Fritz Rang 194
Bernhard Baatz 195
Franz Alfred Six 199
Dr. Rudolf Levin 202
Dr. Hans Rossner 204
Heinz Jost
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Albert Filbert 206
Dr. Heinz Hummitzsch
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Dr. Siegfried Engel
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Dr. Helmut Knochen 256
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x Illustrations
Herbert Hagen 257
Dr. Theodor Paeffgen 263
Walter Huppenkothen 330
Charts
Structure of the RSHA, March
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Institutional Precursors of the RSHA
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