1982, ISBN: 9781156179819

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hermann Rauschning (7 August 1887 February 8, 1982) was a German conservative and reactionary who became a Nazi member in 1932 in the Free City of Danzig, and in 1934 renounced Nazi party membership and fled to the United States where he denounced Nazism. Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Hitler Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hermann Rauschning (7 August 1887 February 8, 1982) was a German conservative and reactionary who became a Nazi member in 1932 in the Free City of Danzig, and in 1934 renounced Nazi party membership and fled to the United States where he denounced Nazism. Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Hitler Speaks, in which he claimed to have many meetings and conversations with Hitler. Historians generally regard this book as discredited. Rauschning was born in Thorn, in the German Empire, to a Prussian officer in the province of West Prussia. He was educated in the Prussian Cadet Corps and was wounded in World War I. After the war, he settled in the area around Danzig (now Gdask, Poland), where he owned land. Under the Treaty of Versailles, Danzig and the surrounding area were designated a "free city" under the control of the League of Nations. In January 1919, Rauschning began to collect reports and newspaper articles about atrocities committed by the Polish government and the so called "Westmarken-Verein" (association for the western territories) in the districts of Thorn (Toru and Posen Pozna, which had come under Polish control as a consequence of the treaty of Versailles. Rauschning claimed that before World War I about 1,200,000 Germans had lived in these districts and that there only 350,000 were left in 1929; he concluded that more than 800,000 had been expelled from their homes. He claimed also that the expulsion was performed through psychological and economic pressure and by internment of thousands of people. Rauschning highlighted the city of Szczypiorno, which, he claimed, had functioned as an internment camp where 8,000 peopleincluding seven-year-old children, seventy-year-old men, and twenty-four Lutheran clergymen (General-Supe. More: Books, , Free-City-Of-Danzig-Politicians~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , Books LLC<

2010, ISBN: 9781156179819

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Paperback, [PU: Books LLC, New This item is printed on demand. Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hermann Rauschning (7 August 188..., This item is printed on demand. Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hermann Rauschning (7 August 188..., DOM<