I Knew Hitler The Third Reich From Original Sources eBook Kurt G W Ludecke Bob Carruthers
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A first hand account of life with Hitler by a survivor of The Night of the Long Knives this important and often overlooked volume was originally published as" I Knew Hitler" by Kurt Ludecke in 1938. The book was out of print for 75 years prior to the appearance of this new Illustrated Edition .
Edited and introduced by Emmy Award Winning writer Bob Carruthers " I Knew Hitler" the illustrated edition provides the missing link in the literary trail which traces the fortunes of Adolf Hitler from Linz to Berlin.
There are surprisingly few personal accounts of life with Hitler from inside the inner circle during the years before he seized power and besides the accounts of Putzi Haefsteangal and Josef Goebels’ Ludecke is by far the most important of them. Dedicated by its author to the memory of Ernst Roehm, the publication of this brand new illustrated edition means that Ludecke’s explosive memoir is back in print for the first time in 75 years.
Kurt Ludecke was a former confident of Hitler’s who had the misfortune to find himself on the wrong side of the political gulf which led to the 1934 blood purge better known outside of Germany as “The Night Of The Long Knives”.
As the power struggle between the SS and the SA threatened to engulf him, Hitler took decisive action and was personally involved in the vicious in-fighting which saw the arrest and execution of many senior SA figures including Roehm himself. Ludecke was a man in the wrong place at the wrong time and was actually incarcerated twice on Hitler’s orders before finally escaping to Switzerland.
For many years this fascinating and highly readable account of life with Hitler’s inner circle was dismissed by the academic world as a heavily biased and therefore unreliable as a main primary resource. However a number of recent scholarly assessments have confirmed what most historians suspected all along; Ludecke is in fact an excellent and highly reliable original source. The rehabilitation of Ludecke is a timely development as he provides the only detailed account surrounding the actions of Adolf Hitler into the world of Adolf Hitler as he took the first steps from Landsberg prison to achieve power through the horse trading following the ill starred election of 1933.
Ludecke also throws a powerful new light on the events of the Night of the Long Knives and gives the clearest indication that we have today that there was indeed a genuine SA plot to overthrow Hitler and set the party on a more rigorous route towards a truly National socialist state. Ludecke is indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the political history of the Third Reich.
I Knew Hitler The Third Reich From Original Sources eBook Kurt G W Ludecke Bob Carruthers
This was one of the last books on my list of "insider accounts" of this era. The reviews weren't promising and of course the guy sounds like a jerk. But, in retrospect, isn't an insider account of these people likely to be from a jerk - by definition? But that is what makes it useful. That is, one gets an inside look into this kind of mindset. Consider this from the author's travels in America where he was trying to make important contacts and get financial support for the Nazi movement: "By the middle of May I knew definitely that Ford had made up his mind to discontinue, finally and permanently, the anti-Jewish campaign and all articles that might give offence to Jews. Of course it was a blow to me; Detroit was meaningless now." The easy way he can say this is repulsive, but that is exactly why it is worth reading.What makes this book unusual among memoirs of Hitler is that it was published before WWII. So, there is an immediacy to his accounts of trying to drum up financial support in America, of later being mysteriously arrested by Hitler and Goering, and of escaping to New York just in time to miss being killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
Imagine reading this book in 1938, around the time it was first published! It would have been quite chilling.
If you find this one useful, you might consider following up with Ernst Hanfstaengl's memoir - another secondary figure of interest.
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I Knew Hitler The Third Reich From Original Sources eBook Kurt G W Ludecke Bob Carruthers Reviews
More about the author than Hitler. Was hoping to learn more about what Hitler was really like and what it was like living in Germany during Hitler's regime.
It help toexpand your noledge of Hitler criminal mentality
This was a VERY difficult read. The author was writing from an early period in Hitler's regime but is clearly not a man one would care for, has no sympathetic qualities, is very bigoted (surprise) and wrote very poorly. Really not at all what I thought it might be.
Fine
This was a very personal look at the early days of the Hitler regime and the development of the Nazi party. It is one man's view point but this man had a rather unique perspective.
Very interesting reading. A great insight into Hitler's more private, day-by-day life.
This book appears to have been originally published in the 1930s and provides a fascinating portrait of a man who rose from obscurity to become one of the 20th century's most hated figures.
Luedecke describes his experience as a German nationalist from the early days of the Nazi movement and some of his revelations about Adolf Hitler are quite interesting for instance, he writes that Hitler was originally quite tolerant of homosexuality. And that he tended to stay up late and then sleep most of the day.
Luedecke goes into a lot of detail recounting his efforts to secure international funding for the party and apparently spent his own money travelling around the world, to solicit funds from Benito Mussolini in Rome, and from notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford, among others.
Yet some of the most disturbing elements concern the political infighting, intrigue and backstabbing as many of the long-time party members like Ernst Roehm are systematically betrayed and exterminated, and Luedecke himself fights for his own survival.
Be warned that Luedecke's narrative is most definitely not politically correct and contains numerous racist and anti-Semitic statements (of the kind that were all too common in that era).
Overall, this is a fascinating historical document the testimony of a "true believer" and old guard member of the Nazi movement, who took part in the rise to power, yet later fell foul of the party establishment and fell so far as to have been held without charge as "the Fuehrer's personal prisoner".
An account that is well worth reading.
This was one of the last books on my list of "insider accounts" of this era. The reviews weren't promising and of course the guy sounds like a jerk. But, in retrospect, isn't an insider account of these people likely to be from a jerk - by definition? But that is what makes it useful. That is, one gets an inside look into this kind of mindset. Consider this from the author's travels in America where he was trying to make important contacts and get financial support for the Nazi movement "By the middle of May I knew definitely that Ford had made up his mind to discontinue, finally and permanently, the anti-Jewish campaign and all articles that might give offence to Jews. Of course it was a blow to me; Detroit was meaningless now." The easy way he can say this is repulsive, but that is exactly why it is worth reading.
What makes this book unusual among memoirs of Hitler is that it was published before WWII. So, there is an immediacy to his accounts of trying to drum up financial support in America, of later being mysteriously arrested by Hitler and Goering, and of escaping to New York just in time to miss being killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
Imagine reading this book in 1938, around the time it was first published! It would have been quite chilling.
If you find this one useful, you might consider following up with Ernst Hanfstaengl's memoir - another secondary figure of interest.
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