The Devil's Diary; Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Wittman, Robert K., and Kinney, David

ISBN 10: 0062319019 / ISBN 13: 9780062319012

Edité par Harper [an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y., 2016

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x, [2], 513, [3] pages. Illustrations. Includes Prologue: The Vault. Chapters include Lost and Found: 1949-2013; Lives in the Balance: 1918-1939; and At War: 1939-1946. Includes Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: A Third Reich Timeline; Appendix B: Cast of Characters; Notes; Selected Bibliography, and Index. Inscribed by the one of the co-authors on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Susan & Allen--All the Best! David Kinney, 2017. Robert King "Bob" Wittman is a highly decorated former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Division from 1988 to 2008. Having trained in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification, Wittman served as the FBI's "top investigator and coordinator in cases involving art theft and art fraud". During his 20 years with the FBI, Wittman helped recover more than $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property, resulting in the prosecution and conviction of numerous individuals. In 2005, he was instrumental in the creation of the FBI's rapid deployment Art Crime Team (ACT). He was instrumental in the recovery of colonial North Carolina's copy of the original Bill of Rights in 2005, after it was stolen by a Union soldier in 1865. Wittman represented the United States around the world, conducting investigations and instructing international police and museums in recovery and security techniques. After 20 years with the FBI working against art theft, he worked as an art security consultant for the private sector David Kinney is the author of The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich written with retired FBI art crime expert Robert Wittman. It tells the story of the disappearance and recovery of Nazi Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg's diary. Kinney also wrote The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob (2014), a kaleidoscopic look at Bob Dylan through the lives of his fans and followers, and The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish (2009), which follows the fanatical saltwater fishermen of Martha's Vineyard during the island's annual derby. His journalism has appeared in newspapers around the country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times. At The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest paper, he was a political reporter on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. An influential figure in Adolf Hitler's inner circle from the start, Alfred Rosenberg made his name by spreading toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany. As the Third Reich dawned, his master-work of racist philosophy became a national best-seller and a touchstone of Nazi thought. Rosenberg's diary--five hundred pages offering a harrowing glimpse into the mind of the "intellectual high priest of the master race''--was discovered in a Bavarian castle at war's end. Prosecutors examined it during the Nuremberg war crimes trial, but after Rosenberg was convicted, sentenced, and executed, it mysteriously vanished. New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Wittman, who as an FBI agent and then as a private consultant specialized in recovering artifacts of historical significance, first learned of the diary in 2001, when the chief archivist for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum contacted him to say that someone was trying to sell it for more than a million dollars. This book provides vital insight of unprecedented scope and intimacy into the innermost working of the Nazi regime--and the psyche of the man whose radical vision gave rise to the Final Solution. Derived from a Kirkus review: A fascinating scholarly detective story centering on the often overlooked ideological architect of the Third Reich, who could never be made to "accept the notion that the ideas he had trumpeted had led to genocide." Bound up in this study of Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), whose influence on Nazi policy was constant until a late-in-the-game falling-out. N° de réf. du vendeur 80893

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Titre : The Devil's Diary; Alfred Rosenberg and the ...

Éditeur : Harper [an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, N.Y.

Date d'édition : 2016

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very good

Etat de la jaquette : Very good

Signé : Signé par l'auteur

Edition : Edition originale

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Synopsis :

A groundbreaking World War II narrative wrapped in a riveting detective story, The Devil’s Diary investigates the disappearance of a private diary penned by one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides—Alfred Rosenberg, his “chief philosopher”—and mines its long-hidden pages to deliver a fresh, eye-opening account of the Nazi rise to power and the genesis of the Holocaust

An influential figure in Adolf Hitler’s early inner circle from the start, Alfred Rosenberg made his name spreading toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany. By the dawn of the Third Reich, he had published a bestselling masterwork that was a touchstone of Nazi thinking.

His diary was discovered hidden in a Bavarian castle at war’s end—five hundred pages providing a harrowing glimpse into the mind of a man whose ideas set the stage for the Holocaust. Prosecutors examined it during the Nuremberg war crimes trial, but after Rosenberg was convicted, sentenced, and executed, it mysteriously vanished.

New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Wittman, who as an FBI agent and then a private consultant specialized in recovering artifacts of historic significance, first learned of the diary in 2001, when the chief archivist for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum contacted him to say that someone was trying to sell it for upwards of a million dollars. The phone call sparked a decade-long hunt that took them on a twisting path involving a pair of octogenarian secretaries, an eccentric professor, and an opportunistic trash-picker. From the crusading Nuremberg prosecutor who smuggled the diary out of Germany to the man who finally turned it over, everyone had reasons for hiding the truth.

Drawing on Rosenberg’s entries about his role in the seizure of priceless artwork and the brutal occupation of the Soviet Union, his conversations with Hitler and his endless rivalries with Göring, Goebbels, and Himmler, The Devil’s Diary offers vital historical insight of unprecedented scope and intimacy into the innermost workings of the Nazi regime—and into the psyche of the man whose radical vision mutated into the Final Solution.

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Robert K. Wittman created the FBI’s Art Crime Team and was the Bureau’s national expert on cultural property crime. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Priceless. David Kinney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Big One and The Dylanologists.

David Kinney is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter whose journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times. He is the author of The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish and The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob.