The Nazi elite / edited by Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zitelmann ; translated by Mary Fischer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zitelmann -- Martin Bormann : Hitler's secretary / Jochen von Lang -- Richard Walther Darré : the blood and soil ideologue / Gustavo Corni -- Gottfried Feder : the failed policy-maker / Albrecht Tyrell -- Hans Frank : party jurist and governor-general in Poland / Christoph Klessmann -- Joseph Goebbels : the propagandist / Elke Fröhlich -- Hermann Goering : second man in the Third Reich / Alfred Kube -- Rudolf Hess : deputy führer / Dietrich Orlow -- Reinhard Heydrich : security technocrat / Günther Deschner -- Heinrich Himmler : Reichsführer-SS / Josef Ackermann -- Adolf Hitler : the führer / Rainer Zitelmann -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner : chief of the Supreme National Security Office / Peter Black -- Robert Ley : the brown collectivist / Ronald Smelser -- Otto Ohlendorf : non-conformist, SS leader and economic functionary / Hanno Sowade -- Joachim von Ribbentrop : from wine merchant to foreign minister / Wolfgang Michalka -- Ernst Julius Röhm : chief of staff of the SA and indispensible outsider / Conan Fischer -- Alfred Rosenberg : national socialism's "chief ideologue"? / Reinhard Bollmus -- Fritz Sauckel : plenipotentiary for the mobilisation of labour / Peter W. Becker -- Baldur von Schirach : student leader, Hitler Youth leader, gauleiter in Vienna / Michael Wortmann -- Albert Speer : cultural and economic management / Jost Dülffer -- Gregor Strasser : Nazi party organiser or Weimar politician? / Udo Kissenkoetter -- Otto Strasser : nationalist socialism versus national socialism / Patrick Moreau -- Fritz Todt : from motorway builder to minister of state / Franz W. Seidler.