Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity (36 page)
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Authors: Michael Munn
The Führer stands isolated in glory, carefully framed by one of his bodyguards and the mystical Blood Banner.
Maintaining the illusion that Hitler worked harder than anyone else in Germany, the Führer is seen presiding over the Reich Chancellery. In reality he was hardly there, leaving his ministers to run the country while he pursued a life of leisure and art.
Hitler doing what he did best – delivering mesmerising speeches and standing in splendid isolation.
Hitler on tour, about to be driven to meet his next audience and still wearing his flying hat, having just arrived by aeroplane; his tour carried the slogan ‘Hitler Over Germany’.
A photo-op at Obersalzberg, one of Hitler’s favourite retreats.
Olga Tschechowa seated next to Hitler, her most ardent fan, at a lavish garden party given by Joachim von Ribbentrop for the diplomatic corps in May 1939.
From the left: Frau Emmy Göring, one-time actress; Frau Ley; Contessa Attolico, wife of the Italian ambassador; and head of the German Labour Front Robert Ley.
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by
The Robson Press (an imprint of Biteback Publishing Ltd)
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ISBN 978–184954–413–9
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HELL ABOVE EARTH
STEPHEN FRATER
An unforgettable and thrilling tale of two WWII bomber pilots who forged an unexpected friendship in the flak-filled skies over Germany.
The air battle over Nazi Germany in WWII was hell above earth. For the British it lasted six years, for the Americans three, and the final death toll was 125,000 Allied aircrew, including 56,000 from the RAF and 26,000 Americans from the British-based Eighth Air Force. For bomber crews, every day they flew was like D-Day, exacting tremendous emotion and trauma. Death could come in many guises: an unlucky flak burst, Luftwaffe fighters that could appear anywhere at any time, or pilot error while flying less than twenty feet apart. Twenty-year-old US Captain Werner Goering accepted this, and even thrived on the adrenalin rush – he was an exceptional pilot. But Werner was also known to be the nephew of Herman Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe – and because of it he became a marked man
“Every bit as exciting and unusual as
Operation Mincemeat
, and demonstrating that there are still things we don’t.”
MICHAEL KORDA
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SHOW ME A HERO
JEREMY SCOTT
The ‘Roaring Twenties’ they called it: a fun time to be alive. The birth of a brave new world. The jazz age of Fords, flappers, prohibition and bathtub gin. The movies, radio and consumerism have redefined the American dream; this is the dawn of our modern era. The machine is the future and supreme among machines is the aeroplane. The aeroplane – speed, glamour, communication – is the emblem of the Now.
And a race is on to be the first to fly to the North Pole … a perilous feat at the extreme edge of technological possibility in the primitive aircraft of the day. The main contestant: Roald Amundsen, who trudged first to the South Pole fourteen years before but is now fifty-two, bankrupt and tarnished. His principal competitor: Richard Byrd, Annapolis graduate and well-connected Virginian swell. To be the first to achieve the Pole would mean glory to one’s country, reward and worldwide fame. To fail, once in the air, would mean almost certain death.
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