LEADER 00000nim a22005295a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220228083018.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 220223s2022 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781666117677 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1666117676 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781666117677_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT14586121 037 14586121|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 943.086092|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Longerich, Peter. 245 10 Heinrich Himmler|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Media, Inc.,|c2022. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (35hr., 28 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Bruce Mann. 520 Heinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such a historically unique position of power? How could the son of a prosperous Bavarian Catholic public servant become the organizer of a system of mass murder spanning the whole of Europe? In the first comprehensive biography of this murderous enigma, Longerich answers those questions with a superb account of Himmler's inner self and outward acts. Masterfully interweaving the story of Himmler's personal life and political career with the wider history of the Nazi dictatorship, Longerich shows how skillfully he exploited and manipulated his disparate roles in the pursuit of his far-reaching and grandiose objectives. Himmler's actual strength, he writes, consisted in redrawing every two or three years the master plans for his sphere of power. Himmler expanded that sphere with ruthless efficiency. The author emphasizes the centrality of Himmler's personality to the Nazi murder machine - his surveillance of the private lives of his men, his deep resentments, his fierce prejudices - showing that man and position were inseparable. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Himmler, Heinrich,|d1900-1945. 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bSchutzstaffel. 650 0 Nazis|vBiography. 650 0 Nazis|zGermany. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 World War, 1939-1945. 651 0 Germany|xPolitics and government|y1933-1945. 700 1 Noakes, Jeremy.|4trl 700 1 Sharpe, Lesley,|d1952-|4trl 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 14586121?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781666117677_180.jpeg