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Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Harper
April 2016
On Sale: March 29, 2016
528 pages
ISBN: 0062319019
EAN: 9780062319012
Kindle: B00PQRH7VC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
A groundbreaking World War II narrative wrapped in a
riveting detective story, The Devil’s Diary
investigates the disappearance of a private diary
penned by one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides—Alfred Rosenberg,
his “chief philosopher”—and mines its long-hidden pages to
deliver a fresh, eye-opening account of the Nazi rise to
power and the genesis of the Holocaust An influential figure in Adolf Hitler’s early inner circle
from the start, Alfred Rosenberg made his name spreading
toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany. By the dawn
of the Third Reich, he had published a bestselling
masterwork that was a touchstone of Nazi thinking. His diary was discovered hidden in a Bavarian castle at
war’s end—five hundred pages providing a harrowing glimpse
into the mind of a man whose ideas set the stage for the
Holocaust. Prosecutors examined it during the Nuremberg war
crimes trial, but after Rosenberg was convicted, sentenced,
and executed, it mysteriously vanished. New York Times bestselling author Robert K.
Wittman, who as an FBI agent and then a private consultant
specialized in recovering artifacts of historic
significance, first learned of the diary in 2001, when the
chief archivist for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
contacted him to say that someone was trying to sell it for
upwards of a million dollars. The phone call sparked a
decade-long hunt that took them on a twisting path involving
a pair of octogenarian secretaries, an eccentric professor,
and an opportunistic trash-picker. From the crusading
Nuremberg prosecutor who smuggled the diary out of Germany
to the man who finally turned it over, everyone had reasons
for hiding the truth. Drawing on Rosenberg’s entries about his role in the seizure
of priceless artwork and the brutal occupation of the Soviet
Union, his conversations with Hitler and his endless
rivalries with Göring, Goebbels, and Himmler, The
Devil’s Diary offers vital historical insight of
unprecedented scope and intimacy into the innermost workings
of the Nazi regime—and into the psyche of the man whose
radical vision mutated into the Final Solution.
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