The Making Of A Gentleman Nazi Albert Speers Politics Of History In The Federal Republic Of Germany Roy by Roy, Baijayanti 9783653052480, 9783631658901, 3653052483, 3631658907 instant download after payment.

At the Nuremberg Trial and through his bestselling books, Albert Speer,
Hitler’s architect and minister, could successfully project an image of
himself as the «gentleman Nazi». Using hitherto unexplored archival
sources, this book looks at those aspects of his career that Speer
retrospectively manipulated (e.g. his resistance to Hitler’s Nero
order), to construct this image. The evolution of the «Speer myth»,
analysed here, shows how West Germany’s politics influenced Speer’s
narrative, as well as the impact that his image had on Federal
Republic’s efforts to cope with its past. This book also examines the
role of historians and public intellectuals in and outside Germany in
reinforcing the Speer myth – the British historian Hugh Trevor Roper and
the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal among others.
https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05248-0