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BECK, ALFRED M. - Hitler's ambivalent attache : Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941 / Alfred M. Beck

Title: Hitler's ambivalent attache : Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941 / Alfred M. Beck
Description: Washington. D.C. : Potomac Books 2005. First Edition. An exceptional paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 323 pages; xvi. 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attaché accredited to the United States between the world wars. As such. he was Germany's official military observer in the capital of the nation whose potential as an ally of those powers arrayed against Adolf Hitler in the 1930s might have given the dictator pause in any predatory plans he harbored against his neighbors. Though von Boetticher produced a rich and detailed commentary on military and political affairs in Washington in the eight years prior to the outbreak of war between Germany and the United States in 1941. he was nonetheless accused after the war of misjudging America's productive potential and misleading Hitler with overly optimistic reports. As Alfred M. Beck points out. what he actually told German authorities in Berlin is strikingly different from what his detractors later claimed. Von Boetticher 'permits a glimpse into the sociology of a conservative officer caste at once assailed by the politics of a regime and the impossibilities imposed on it. its weaknesses in resisting its evils. and its eventual failure to present an alternative to National Socialism's illusory attractions.'.Weight in Kg appr.:

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Price: EUR 9.95 = appr. US$ 10.81 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 221613



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