The object of this book is not to prove that Adolf Hitler was insane. So much is obvious, both intuitively and from a clinical perspective. Nevertheless the reasons for arriving at such a conclusion will be reiterated and enlarged upon.
Instead, the aim of the author is to discover what light Hitler's associates were able to shed on the personality and modus operandi of the Fuhrer, and to determine the extent to which they (and indeed, Hitler himself) realized that their leader was insane.
The aim is also to investigate the cause of his insanity. In this regard, the testimony of the leading Nazis, who were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg during 1945 and 1946, are of particular relevance. These captured Nazis surely realized that in all probability, they would be found guilty, and their lives would terminate at the end of a rope.
Surely, therefore, they had nothing to lose by giving the `low down' on their late Fuhrer, i.e. revealing their innermost thoughts as to his sanity, or otherwise.
By:
Andrew Norman
Imprint: FONTHILL
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 514g
ISBN: 9781781556627
ISBN 10: 1781556628
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 June 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Eduard Bloch: the Hitler Family's Doctor; 2 Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels; 3 Hans Mend; 4 Dietrich Eckart; 5 Ostara and its Influence on Hitler; 6 Hitler's Secret Book; 7 Alfred Rosenberg; 8 Rosenberg and the Myth of the 20th Century; 9 Julius Streicher; 10 Herman Goring; 11 Rudolf Hess; 12 Heinrich Himmler; 13 Wilhelm Frick; 14 Baldur von Schirach; 15 Josef Goebbels; 16 Franz von Papen; 17 Joachim von Ribbentrop; 18 Walther Funk; 19 Hjalmar Schacht; 20 Martin Bormann; 21 Konstantin von Neurath; 22 Hans Frank; 23 Hitler, and a Possible Jewish Ancestor; 24 The Further Testimony of Hans Frank; 25 The Accounts of Heinrich Pfeifer and Walther Korodi; 26 The Account of Fritz Thyssen; 27 Was Either Salomon or Anselm von Rothschild Hitler's paternal grandfather? Conclusion; 28 Albert Speer; 29 Erich Raeder; 30 Wilhelm Keitel; 31 Ernst Sauckel; 32 Walther von Brauchitsch; 33 Erich von Manstein; 34 Alfred Jodl; 35 Wilhelm Canaris; 36 Friedrich (`Fritz') Thyssen; 37 Erwin Rommel; 38 Arthur Seyss-Inquart; 39 Friedrich Paulus; 40 Ernst Kaltenbrunner; 41 Karl Donitz; 42 Claus von Stauffenberg; 43 Bridget Hitler; 44 William Patrick Hitler and Paula Hitler; 45 Ulrich de Maiziere; 46 Hitler's Table Talk; 47 Hitler and the Alleged Bolshevik Threat; 48 Hitler's Irrational Hatred of the Jews and Others; 49 Hitler and his Jewish Associates; 50 Theodor Morell; 51 Eva Braun; 52 Nazi Cruelty Explained; 53 Hitler and His Voices; 54 Drilling Down on Hitler's Madness; 55 Hitler's Schizophrenia: The Most Dangerous Type of All; 56 The Origin of Hitler's Schizophrenia; 57 Syphilis Catches up with the Fuhrer; 58 The Fate of Hitler and Others; Epilogue.
Andrew Norman was born in Newbury, Berkshire, UK in 1943. Having been educated at Thornhill High School, Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Midsomer Norton Grammar School, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he qualified in medicine at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He has two children Bridget and Thomas, by his first wife. From 1972-83, Andrew worked as a general practitioner in Poole, Dorset, before a spinal injury cut short his medical career. He is now an established writer whose published works include biographies of Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, Adolf Hitler, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Mugabe. Andrew married his second wife Rachel, in 2005.