03019cam a2200349 i 4500 508495775 TxAuBib 20211006120000.0 210608s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021027618 9781631498275 HRD 28.95 1631498274 HRD 28.95 TxAuBib rda eng ger Ullrich, Volker, 1943- Acht tage im Mai English. Eight days in May [BOOK] : the final collapse of the Third Reich / Volker Ullrich ; translated by Jefferson Chase. 8 days in May. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in German as "Acht Tage im Mai: Die letzte Woche des Dritten Reiches." -Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945―Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion. Provided by publisher. 20211006. Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Death and burial. World War, 1939-1945 Germany. Germany Social conditions 1933-1945. Chase, Jefferson S, translator.