What Hitler Knew

The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-518261-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 221 g

What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II. Zachary Shore argues persuasively that the tense environment led the diplomats to a nearly obsessive control over the "information arsenal" in a desperate battle to defend their positions and to safeguard their lives. Unlike previous studies, this book draws the reader into the diplomats' darker world, and illustrates how Hitler's power to make informed decisions was limited by the very system he created. The result, Shore concludes, was a chaotic flow of information between Hitler and his advisers that may have accelerated the march toward war.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of twentieth-century German history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shore, Zachary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Zachary Shore is a research fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.