The name of Elena Syanova is well known to readers from her trilogy about Hitler and his “inner circle” — fiction saturated to the limit with absolutely documentary, unexpected, shocking information. In her new book, Elena Syanova abandons all fictionalization and offers the reader the hard взгляд of a professional researcher — translator, archivist, historian. But here is the remarkable thing — the subject of her interest, characters who in everyday consciousness have become almost “cardboard bogeymen” (Hess, Speer, Streicher, Ley, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Milch...), under precisely such a gaze suddenly gain depth and a new eerie relevance. Could they really come alive?
Contents
01- Preface
02- Hess
03- Speer
04- Streicher
05- Wenck
06- Ley
07- Goebbels
08- Eicke
09- Milch
10- Ribbentrop
11- Schirach
12- Appendix
13- Verdict