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Hitler's hangman : the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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How does one write the biography of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key players in the most murderous genocide of history, a historial figure the Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann famously referred to as Hitler’s ‘hangman’?This is the question I have been asking myself from the moment I first decided to embark on this book project. It was always clear to me that the writing of a Nazi biography would pose a specific set of challenges, ranging from the need to master the vast and ever-growing body of literature on Hitler’s dictatorship to the peculiar problem of having to penetrate so the mind of a person whose mentality and ideological universe seem repellent and strangely distant, even though the Nazi dictatorship ended less than seventy years ago. But the major challenge lay elsewhere: namely, in the fact that any kind of life-writing requires a certain degree of empathy with the book’s subject, even if that subject is Reinhard Heydrich.Biographers often use the contrasting images of autopsy and portrait to describe their work: while the autopsy offers a detached, forensic examination of a life, the portrait relies on the biographer’s empathy with his subject. I have chosen to combine both
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- Author
- Robert Gerwarth
- Publisher
- YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300177466
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (473 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13