Hitler's Jackals

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This is the vivid yet sobering story of those European nations which collaborated with Adolf Hitler in his search for world domination - the nations which the author has dubbed Hitler's Jackals - and which paid so heavy a price in consequence. Rupert Butler's long years of deep research and extensive writing on the Nazi scene have enabled him to present a fascinating pattern of events overprinted by the personalities who dominated them. He describes the devilish and cold-blooded ways in which the Führer and his satraps bludgeoned and blackmailed the 'jackal pack' into complicity with their orders and into the provision of troops and war materials, both of which Germany needed so badly if the war was to be won as Hitler planned. Much of this book is concerned with the events in Eastern and Central Europe and the war on the Eastern Front, with its tangled tale of Hitlerian folly in the shape of Operation BARBAROSSA, the invasion of Russia in June, 1941. So firmly were they under the... Tovább

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This is the vivid yet sobering story of those European nations which collaborated with Adolf Hitler in his search for world domination - the nations which the author has dubbed Hitler's Jackals - and which paid so heavy a price in consequence. Rupert Butler's long years of deep research and extensive writing on the Nazi scene have enabled him to present a fascinating pattern of events overprinted by the personalities who dominated them. He describes the devilish and cold-blooded ways in which the Führer and his satraps bludgeoned and blackmailed the 'jackal pack' into complicity with their orders and into the provision of troops and war materials, both of which Germany needed so badly if the war was to be won as Hitler planned. Much of this book is concerned with the events in Eastern and Central Europe and the war on the Eastern Front, with its tangled tale of Hitlerian folly in the shape of Operation BARBAROSSA, the invasion of Russia in June, 1941. So firmly were they under the Nazi yoke that the Jackals were unable to disentangle themselves until the physical presence of the Red Army within their own borders and the pressure of the advances of the Western Allies in the Mediterranean and North-West Europe brought about the final disintegration of the Axis. The Author alsó telis of the savage seizure of Greece in the spring and early summer of 1941 and of the long drawn-out struggle of the Partisan war with Tito in Yugoslavia. Butler has perforce had to cover a very wide canvas, stretching from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and, in time, from Hitler's inspired opportunism of his entry into the Rhineland in 1936 to his death and final surrender in 1945. Throughout that period political domestic warfare raged in the satellite states, kings were dethroned and petty dictators exerted ruthless power - yet at all times the pernicious, all-pervading Nazi influence, masterminded to a great extent by the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, overshadowed all, setting in motion a reign of terror and wave upon wave of brutal atrocities of which, until now, all too little has been written. Small wonder that the Jackals jumped from the Nazi frying pan into the fire of Soviet domination, little realising the long years of misery and abject poverty that awaited them and from which they are still struggling to recover. Vissza