The hangman and his wife : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich Cover Image

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The hangman and his wife : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich / Nancy Dougherty ; edited with a foreword by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.

Dougherty, Nancy, 1939-2013 (author.). Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, (editor,, writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780394543413
ISBN: 0394543416
Physical Description: xx, 623 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-598) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Starting out -- The face of National Socialism -- Child of uncertainty -- The honor of an officer -- The honor of a woman -- The great enigma : Heinrich Himmler -- Fate, or "work in relation to life's possibilities" -- Gathering power -- Bitter young men, bright young men : Heydrich's SD -- The evil twins -- The road to Berlin -- The rules of the game -- A lesson in life -- Exercising power -- Transformations of our struggle : the invisible apparat -- The expert on the forms of words -- "Garbage can of the Third Reich" -- The house across the way -- Drawing the line : the Abwehr resistance -- The Night of Broken Glass -- Inside the spider's web -- The second sex in the Third Reich -- A disgrace -- for Germany -- Going to war -- "Perfectly normal men" -- The road to Wannsee -- The Wansee Conference -- Reichsprotektor : Bohemia & Moravia -- The castle -- The fatal crown -- The road to Jungfern-Breschan -- The temple of fear -- Afterwards -- Surviving death and defeat -- The album.