Nazi Wives, James Wyllie
Nazi Wives, James Wyllie
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Nazi Wives
The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

Author: James Wyllie

Narrator: Dalya Raphael

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2020


Synopsis

“The real housewives of the Third Reich...[Wyllie] recounts their stories with a bracing combination of scholarship and an almost cinematic approach to spinning a compelling narrative” -- Washington Post

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle.

Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann—names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda...

These are the women behind the infamous men—complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself. Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables.

James Wyllie's Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skillfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About James Wyllie

James Wyllie is an author, award-winning screenwriter and broadcaster. He is the author of GOERING AND GOERING, THE TIME TRAVELER'S HANDBOOK, and CODEBREAKERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET INTELLIGENCE TEAM THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. He has worked on numerous films for the BBC and Film4 and has written for a number of TV drama series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on October 21, 2020

This book is a heavy read, but a very interesting one. The key players in the Nazi regime -- we all know their names. Himmler, Bormann, Hess, Goering...the usual list. We all know their actions, their beliefs....their fates. Books, movies, television shows, documentaries, school lessons....we've lea......more

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on August 28, 2020

I was glad to see that someone had done a book on the female main players around Hitler, instead of acting as if they didn’t exist. So I was happy to get a chance to read this ARC on the subject. I’ve read about different things involving World War II from many aspects, and this would be a new one t......more

Goodreads review by Cassandra on August 09, 2020

I have read many books on WWII and the Holocaust, but this was my first read dedicated to the wives and other women in the lives of the Nazi Inner Circle. I really enjoyed reading more about them and what they lived through as the wife of a Nazi. I had heard a good bit about Magda Goebbels and prior......more

Goodreads review by Casey on October 05, 2020

This book is an interesting read. I have read a great deal about World War II and the events leading up to it, but never on the subjects that the author covered in this book. He provides biographies of the women at the top of Nazi Germany and not only their role with their husbands, between themselv......more