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Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days

by Karl Donitz · 1958

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(From the back cover): Candid portraits of Hitler, Goering, Bormann, Himmler and other leaders of The Third Reich. An amazing account by the man who was Hitler's heir.

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"Fascinating and controversial. It must be read. This book is frightening."

-Detroit News

"Absorbing and enlightening...it is a must."

-General Terford Taylor, Chief US Prosecutor at Nuremberg

"Historically valuable."

-National Review.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
war and military
Themes
military history
Setting
World War II20th centuryGermany
Audience
adult
Length
long · 560 pages

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