Interrogations

Part 1 Interrogations - an introduction: outlaw country; the criminals; the charges; asking the questions; the absentees -Hitler, Himmler, Bormann; selective amnesia? the case of Hess; the helpful Speer; the unrepentant Goering; the limits of responsibility - strategies of denial; confessing to genocide; "I hope they hang 'all'" - final retribution. Part 2 Interrogations -the transcripts: notes on the transcripts; perspectives on the Fuehrer - "the driving force", Albert Speer, Hitler's women, Karl Brandt, the new feudalism, Hans Lammers, Hitler the warlord, Alfred Jodl; "the world's worst criminal" - Goering in the Third Reich - a souvenir from Monte Cassino, Hermann Goering, the commander-in-chief, Hermann Goering, conquest by telephone, Hermann Goering, vote "no" if you dare Albert Goering; waging war - Ribbentrop, Hitler and war, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's "chess game of power politics", Albert Speer, OKW at war, Wilhelm Keitel; genocide - the Fuehrer order, Dieter Wisliceny, a morbid accounting, Dieter Wisliceny, "incredible things at Auschwitz", Ernst von Gottstein and Eugen Horak, a doctor at Dachau, Franz Blaha, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rudolf Hoess, demarcation dispute, Otto Moll and Rudolf Hoess; the Hess case - "I have lost my memory", Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering, the young ladies, Rudolf Hess et al, "the science of psychiatry is sound", Rudolf Hess; the von Papen case - resistance and compliance - "a way out of the mess" -von Papen and Hitler in 1933, Franz von Papen, "this problem of responsibility", Franz von Papen; Albert Speer - true confessions? - Speer the expert, Albert Speer, sixty acts of treason, Albert Speer, Speer the assassin, Dietrich Stahl, special pleading, Albert Speer, "not a concern of mine", Albert Speer; Robert Ley -profile of a suicide - the testament of Robert Ley, Robert Ley, Ley's dialogue with the dead, Robert Ley, confessions of an anti-semite, Robert Ley; obeying orders - complicity and denial - "not a dangerous person", Wilhelm Frick, "talking in a dream", Joachim von Ribbentrop, "very undesirable activities", Heinz Gudrian; Germany's future - rebuilding the Reich, Robert Ley, Schact's new Germany, Hjalmar Schact.