The Third Reich

Hugh Trevor-Roper was perhaps the most brilliant historian of his generation. An expert in the history of both early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and latterly Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He received a life peerage in 1979. During World War II, Trevor-Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service and in 1945 he undertook detailed enquiries into the circumstances of Hitler's death under commission from the SIS. It was these investigations that formed the basis for his most best-known book: The Last Days of Hitler. Gina Thomas is a journalist and historian. She is the UK cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Introduction by Gina Thomas; PART I: ORIGINS; The Phenomenon of Fascism; Second to Third Reich; Reflections on Mein Kampf; PART II: NAZI RULE; 4. Hitler's War Aims; 5. The Mind of Adolf Hitler; 6. Goebbels: Hitler's Impresario; 7. Felix Kersten, Hitler's personal masseur; 8. Albert Speer; 9. Martin Bormann; 10. Rudolf Hess: The Original Intruder; 11. Seas of Unreason: hunan genetics in Nazi Germany; 12. Hitler's Place in History; 13. 'The Woman's Angle':The Memoirs of Henriette von Schirach; 14. All in the Family; PART III: AFTERMATH; 15. The Lasting Effects of the Nuremberg Trial; 16. A.J.P. Taylor, Hitler and the War; 17. Psycho-history and the Mind of Hitler; 18. Hitler's Generals; 19. Hitler: Does History Offer a Defence?; 20. The Eichmann Trial; 21. Germany's Awakening Conscience; 22. Revisiting The Last Days of Hitler; 23. The Memoirs of Ernst von Weizsacker; 24. The Answers of Ernst von Salomon; 25. Was Nazism unique?; 26. German reunification; Appendix: The Horror and the Comedy of History.