The last week of the Third Reich has begun. Hitler is dead, but the war is not yet over. Everything seems to come to a standstill, and yet everything is in breathless motion. Volker Ullrich describes this "timeless time" day by day and takes the reader into a collapsing world full of drama and hope, violence and fear. His book is an unforgettable journey through time to the downfall.
While Dönitz's government is evacuating to Flensburg, the Allied forces are advancing inexorably. Berlin capitulates, and in Italy, Army Group C. Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun is arrested. There is a suicide epidemic and mass rapes. Last death marches, wild expulsions, Nazi bigwigs in hiding, liberated concentration camps - all this belongs to that "gap between the not-more and the not-yet" that Erich Kästner noted in his diary on 7 May 1945. Volker Ullrich, the great journalist and Hitler biographer, has put together a panorama of these "Eight Days in May" from historical miniatures and mosaic stones that reads more grippingly than many a thriller.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Ullrich, Volker
Title
Acht Tage im Mai. Die letzte Woche des Dritten Reiches
Details
21 ill. and 1 map. 317 pp.
State
new
Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Wilhelmstr. 9 80801 München Deutschland
