Storia del Terzo Reich (1960)

Though I lived and worked in the Third Reich during the first half of its brief life, watching at first hand Adolph Hitler consolidate power as a dictator of this great but baffling nation and then lead it off to war and conquest, this personal experience would not have led me to attempt to write this book had there not occurred at the end of World War II an event unique in history. This was the capture of most of the confidential archives of the German government and all its branches, including those of the Foreign Office, the Army and Navy, the National Socialist Party and Heinrich Himmler's secret police. (Foreword)

On the very eve of the birth of the third Reich a feverish tension gripped Berlin. The Weimar Republic, it seemed obvious to almost everyone, was about to expire. (main text)