OFFICIAL SECRETS PB: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew - Brossura

Breitman, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0809001845 ISBN 13: 9780809001842

Casa editrice: Hill and Wang, 1977

Riassunto

An important new work based on newly declassified archives.

As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of millions. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its intelligence services had for years been intercepting, decoding, and analyzing German police radio messages and SS ones, too. Yet these important papers were sealed away as "Most Secret," "Never to Be Removed from This Office"-and they have only now reappeared.Integrating this new evidence with other sources, Richard Breitman reconsiders how Germany's leaders brought about the Holocaust-and when-and reassesses Britain's and America's suppression of information about the Nazi killings. His absorbing account of the tensions between the two powers and the consequences of keeping this information secret for so long shows us the danger of continued government secrecy, which serves none of us well, and the failure to punish many known war criminals.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Richard Breitman, professor of history at American University, is the author of Architect of Genocide, a biography of Himmler. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hill and Wang
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0809001845
• ISBN 13: 9780809001842
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336