Inside the court of Adolf Hitler
Richard J Evans’s group biography of the Third Reich’s enforcers provides a revelatory account of the Nazi mind.
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Harry Rée: teacher, chancer, survivor, spy
Harry Rée was a grammar school teacher when war broke out in 1939. Then he joined Churchill’s secret army.
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