Every researcher is existentially dependent on archivists and librarians. This book benefited from the guiding and sometimes warning hand of Klaus Lankheit, a deep reservoir of knowledge of Hitler and the Third Reich and chief archivist at Munich’s indispensible Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History)—where Simone Paulmichl facilitated my access to scholars and resources. I also received timely support from David Morris, Mark Dimunation, and Amber Paranick at the Library of Congress; from Holly Reed and Sharon Culley at the U.S. National Archives; from Evi Hartmann at Washington’s German Historical Institute; from Sylvia Krauss, Johann Pörnbacher, and Josef Anker at the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; from Christoph Bachmann and his crack crew at the Staatsarchiv München; from Peter Fleischmann at the Staatsarchiv Nürnberg; from numerous staffers at Munich’s huge and deeply endowed Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB). Special thanks to Angelika Betz in the amazing photo archive of the BSB.
My work in these institutions was made far more efficient by the outstanding research assistance of Courtney Marie Burrell, a gifted graduate student at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
To Harald Eichinger, along with prison director Monika Gross, I am indebted for a revealing tour of Landsberg Prison and the spot where Hitler lived, worked, and slept. Thanks also go to Daniella Philippi, spokesperson of Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer, for making the visit possible, and to retired prison historian Klaus Weichert for responding willingly to my queries.
But one Landsberger deserves special gratitude. Manfred Deiler is a leader of the brave, sometimes isolated association of citizen activists and historians who have gradually uncovered Landsberg’s role in mistreating Jewish slave laborers near the end of World War II. Deiler and his colleagues have for two decades worked to preserve the remains of the degrading earthen barracks that housed the doomed prisoners. In the process, Deiler has become a repository of data and documents about Hitler’s stay in Landsberg Prison and its conversion into a shrine after Hitler took power. Deiler welcomed me into his home, guided me through the thicket of his holdings, and repeatedly responded to my requests for clarification. He does righteous labor and it is all plain to see at http://www.buergervereinigung-landsberg.org.
Writers need writers as friends and supporters in the sometimes daunting business of opening a new window on difficult subject matter. My indispensable circle of support includes James Reston Jr., Laurence Leamer, Roger M. Williams, Erla Zwingle, Mark Olshaker, Ann Blackman, Michael Putzel, Mark Perry, Joel Swerdlow, and Dan Moldea.
Books arise in numerous ways. This one began with an essay in the New York Times, and I am grateful to op-ed editor Clay Risen for his help in shaping and running the piece. Nothing goes anywhere in publishing without good agents and editors, and I had both in Gail Ross and Dara Kaye, at Ross Yoon Agency, and John Parsley and Jean Garnett, at Little, Brown—all masters at guiding a writer toward the finish line.
Finally, my efforts would still be somewhere between wishful and flailing if it were not for the steady, editorially incisive and devoted support of my wife, Linda Harris. As always, I owe the greatest debt to her.
About the Author
Peter Ross Range is a world-traveled journalist who has covered war, politics, and international affairs. A specialist on Germany, he has written extensively for Time, the New York Times, National Geographic, the London Sunday Times Magazine, Playboy, and U.S. News & World Report, where he was a national and White House correspondent. He has also been an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, and a Distinguished International Visiting Fellow at the University of North Carolina Journalism School. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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