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Product Identifiers
PublisherIshi Press International
ISBN-104871878775
ISBN-139784871878777
eBay Product ID (ePID)124908870
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleInfiltration : How Heinrich Himmler Schemed to Build an Ss Industrial Empire
Number of Pages402 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Europe / Germany, Industries / General, Modern / 20th Century, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Regional
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
AuthorAlbert Speer
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisAlbert Speer - gifted architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Adolf Hitler's Third Reich - cannot forget. "At seventy-five, decades after the events. I am still haunted by the thought that I could have made decisions in a minute that would have improved the situation of the unfortunate inmates." Although not responsible for the concentration camps, Speer was in charge of the arms produced by the inmates, who were forced into factory work in hellish conditions. Speer set out to tell the story of German armaments in World War II and in his research stumbled across the records of the SS for the period. These included the documents of its chief, Heinrich Himmler, who was determined to infiltrate the war economy with his own people and build an SS industrial empire. Acting with Hitler's consent, Himmler would have made the SS independent of state and party. The insidiousness of the plot was well known to Speer, one of Himmler's targets However, the breadth of Himmler's machinations, the depth of his ruthlessness, the sheer mania of his last-ditch schemes to increase production became a book in themselves. Thus Infiltration is the only-book about the SS written by a high-ranking official within the Third Reich. It is also the most telling portrait of Heinrich Himmler ever written.