Timothy W. Ryback

A study of Hitler's emotional and intellectual world traces the evolution of his political philosophy, analyzing key phrases and ideas from his personal books as revealed in his own writings, speeches, conversations, and actions.

The Books that Shaped His Life

Hitler's Private Library

Traces the work of German prosecutor Josef Hartinger to find justice for the first victims of the Holocaust, who died in 1933, as a state detention center for political prisoners turned into the Dachau concentration camp.

The Quest for Justice

Hitler's First Victims

Hitler's Final Rise to Power

Takeover

Hitler's First Victims is a fast-paced narrative reconstruction of six dramatic weeks in 1933 that tells the astonishing true story of one man's race to expose the Nazis as murderers on the eve of the Holocaust. At 9am on 13 April 1933 deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau, where four prisoners had been shot. The SS guards claimed the men had been trying to escape. But what Hartinger found - a barbed wire cage in an industrial wasteland, the men's corpses dumped in an ammunition shed, precision gunshot wounds to their heads, all of them Jews - convinced him that something was terribly wrong. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor only six weeks previously. Soon the Nazis would have a stranglehold on the entire judicial system. Hitler's First Victims is the story of Hartinger's race to expose the Nazi regime's murderous nature before it was too late. It is the story of a man willing to sacrifice everything in his pursuit of justice, just as the doors to justice were closing.

The Race for Justice

Hitler's First Victims is a fast-paced narrative reconstruction of six dramatic weeks in 1933 that tells the astonishing true story of one manâe(tm)s race to expose the Nazis as murderers on the eve of the Holocaust. At 9am on 13 April 1933 deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau, where four prisoners had been shot. The SS guards claimed the men had been trying to escape. But what Hartinger found âe" a barbed wire cage in an industrial wasteland, the menâe(tm)s corpses dumped in an ammunition shed, precision gunshot wounds to their heads, all of them Jews âe" convinced him that something was terribly wrong. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor only six weeks previously. Soon the Nazis would have a stranglehold on the entire judicial system. Hitlerâe(tm)s First Victims is the story of Hartingerâe(tm)s race to expose the Nazi regimeâe(tm)s murderous nature before it was too late. It is the story of a man willing to sacrifice everything in his pursuit of justice, just as the doors to justice were closing.

And One Man's Race for Justice

Timothy W.. Ryback

Describes changing government attitudes toward Western-style rock and roll in Eastern Europe, looks at the most prominent Soviet bands, and assesses the current state of rock music in Russia

A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Rock Around the Bloc

In The Last Survivor, journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising--and often disturbing--ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of us associate with gas chambers and mass graves. A grandmother recalls the echo of wooden shoes on cobblestone, the clip-clop of inmates marched from boxcars to barracks under the cover of night. A mother-to-be opts to deliver in a neighboring town, so that her child's birth certificate will not be stamped DACHAU. An "SS baby," now middle-aged, wonders about the father he never knew. And should you visit Dachau, you will meet Martin Zaidenstadt, an 87 year-old who accosts tourists with a first-hand account of the camp before its liberation in 1945. Beautifully written, compassionate, wise, The Last Survivor takes us to a place that bears the mark of Cain--and a people unwilling to be defined by the past, yet painfully unable to forget.

Legacies of Dachau

The Last Survivor

A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking. Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s constant companions throughout his life. They accompanied him from his years as a frontline corporal during the First World War to his final days before his suicide in Berlin. With remarkable attention to detail, Ryback examines the surviving volumes from Hitler’s private book collection, revealing the ideas and obsessions that occupied Hitler in his most private hours and the consequences they had for our world. A feat of scholarly detective work, and a captivating biographical portrait, Hitler’s Private Library is one of the most intimate and chilling works on Hitler yet written.

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Der letzte Überlebende

Biblioteca lui Hitler însuma circa 16 000 de volume care, în mare parte, au intrat în posesia trupelor americane la încheierea războiului. Reputatul cercetător american Timothy W. Ryback a descoperit şi cercetat în Biblioteca Congresului din Washington D.C. şi în alte centre de documentare din Statele Unite şi din Europa aproximativ 1200 de lucrări care au aparţinut dictatorului, multe dintre ele cu adnotările şi sublinierile lui atente. De la lucrări clasice ale literaturii universale, cum sunt Don Quijote, Robinson Crusoe ori romanele de aventuri ale lui Karl May şi piesele lui Shakespeare, la scrieri antisemite, ca Evreul internaţional a lui Henry Ford, de la Nietzsche şi Schopenhauer la obscure tratate de ocultism, analiza făcută de autor acestor cărţi oferă o nouă perspectivă asupra transformării micului caporal în Führerul care a declarat război civilizaţiei.

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