Christian Goeschel

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.

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A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes ​From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler's decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Mussolini and Hitler

Suicide in Nazi Germany

Nikolaus Wachsmann

Weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi regime established the first concentration camps in Germany. Initially used for real and suspected political enemies, the camps increasingly came under SS control and became sites for the repression of social outsiders and German Jews. Terror was central to the Nazi regime from the beginning, and the camps gradually moved toward the center of repression, torture, and mass murder during World War II and the Holocaust. This collection brings together revealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939, which have been overlooked thus far. Many of the documents are unpublished and have been translated into English for the first time. These documents provide insight into the camps from multiple perspectives, including those of prisoners, Nazi officials, and foreign observers, and shed light on the complex relationship between terror, state, and society in the Third Reich.

A Documentary History

The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939

The Third Reich met its end in the spring of 1945 in an unparalleled wave of suicides. Goeschel analyses the Third Reich's self-destructiveness and the suicides of ordinary people and Nazis in Germany from 1918 until 1945, including the mass suicides of German Jews during the Holocaust.

L'alleanza tra Italia fascista e Germania nazista fu la conseguenza del progressivo avvicinamento tra Mussolini e Hitler. I due dittatori, infatti, coltivarono per oltre 10 anni un rapporto personale e diretto che ebbe enormi conseguenze sui rispettivi paesi e nella storia d'Europa. Ma cosa li legò fino al tracollo definitivo? Illumina con luce inedita questa cinica e catastrofica 'relazione personale'. Un libro eccellente. Ian Kershaw Affascinante, ben scritto, molto documentato. Lucy Riall Brillante, dettagliato e di piacevole lettura. John Foot Tra il 1934 e il 1944, Hitler e Mussolini si incontrarono diverse volte in Germania e in Italia. Questi eventi vennero celebrati dalla propaganda di entrambi i regimi come tappe nodali mentre la stampa internazionale li osservò con enorme attenzione, contribuendo a diffonderne il sinistro fascino in tutto il mondo. Nonostante il loro clamore e il loro enorme peso, in genere gli storici hanno dedicato poca attenzione alla relazione diretta tra i due dittatori, concentrandosi spesso su aspetti più specifici e legati alla dimensione nazionale. In realtà, questa relazione fu tesa, complessa ed esercitò un fortissimo peso nella diplomazia internazionale, nella preparazione della guerra e nelle decisioni strategiche dei due paesi. Spesso anche ben al di là delle reali intenzioni del Duce e del Führer. Fu, dunque, la relazione tra due uomini, due dittatori, a cambiare il corso della storia europea del XX secolo. Le pagine di questo libro la raccontano nei suoi aspetti più intimi e finora trascurati e lo fa in un momento in cui i timori e le preoccupazioni sulla gestione dei rapporti tra paesi tornano prepotentemente sulla scena pubblica.

Storia di una relazione pericolosa

Mussolini e Hitler

The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide epidemic that has no historical parallel and that can tell us much about the Third Reich's peculiar self-destructiveness and the depths of Nazi fanaticism. Looking at the suicides of both Nazis and ordinary people in Germany from the end of World War I until the end of World War II, Christian Goeschel shows how suicides among different population groups, including supporters, opponents, and victims of the regime, responded to the social, cultural, economic, and political context of the time. Richly grounded in gripping and previously unpublished source material Suicide in Nazi Germany offers a new perspective on the central social and political crises of the era, from revolution, economic collapse, and the rise of the Nazis, to Germany's total defeat in 1945.

Christian Goeschel

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