Cassell Military Classics: Last Days of the Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945

Type

Book

Authors

James Lucas

ISBN 13

9780304354481

Tags

Germany, World War II

Description

When the Third Reich collapsed, 70 million Germans were left bewildered and terrified, their leaders dead or incarcerated; the victors saw fully for the first time the unbearable legacy of death, atrocity, and destruction left by the Nazis. Here is the view from Hitler's bunker, where news came of his troops surrendering on every front. An extraordinary story of ruin, retribution, sometimes courage and occasional suicide...and the ultimate rise from these ashes of a powerful, democratic republic. - from Amzon

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