Hitler

Walter, Fritz. See Hanisch, Reinhold Ward Price, G.

Weber, Christian

Weber, Friedrich

Weber, Max

Webern, Anton von

Wedekind, Frank

Weiss (deputy police commissioner)

Weiss, Ferdl

Weiss, Wilhelm

Weizsacker, Ernst Freiherr von

Welles, Sumner

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Wels, Otto

Wenck, General Walther

Wessel, Horst

Wessel, Horst, song

Weygand, General Maxime

Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Wilhelm I, Emperor

Wilhelm II, Emperor

Wilson, Sir Horace

Wilson, Woodrow

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

Winter, Anny (Hitler’s housekeeper)

Winterfeld, von

Wirth, Josef

Wittelsbach dynasty

Witzleben, General Erwin von

Wolf (Free Corps)

Wolf, General Karl

Woyrsch, Udo von

Wrangel, Baron Petr Nikolaevich

Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Peter

Young, Owen D. (Young Plan)

Zahnschirm (parish priest in Dollers-heim)

Zakreys, Maria

Zauner (constable in Linz)

Zauritz (policeman)

Zeitzler, General Kurt

Zetkin, Clara

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich

Zuckmayer, Carl

Zweig, Stefan

About the Author

JOACHIM C. FEST is a highly acclaimed historian and journalist, and the author of several widely respected books on Nazi Germany, including The Face of the Third Reich, Plotting Hitler’s Death, and Speer. He worked closely with Albert Speer as the editor of Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. He lives near Frankfurt.

Copyright

Copyright © 1973 by Verlag Ullstein

English translation copyright © 1974 by Harcourt, Inc.

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Quotations throughout the book are from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, translated by Ralph Manheim.

Copyright 1943 and © renewed 1971 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Fest, Joachim C. 1926–

Hitler.

“A Helen and Kurt Wolff book.”

1. Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945.

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Footnotes

1

Mannesrechtler—a coinage based on Frauenrechtler. Its present-day equivalent might be “Men’s Lib.”—TRANS.

2

We will build Germania’s cathedral without the Jews and without Rome. Heil!