WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - History Pages No. 115: The Final Hours of the Third Reich (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Historian Emmanuel Droit provides a compelling essay on the end of Nazism, based on little-used archives. ---- At the very end of the Second World War, several Nazi leaders-military officers and ministers (Karl Dönitz, Alfred Joldl, and Albert Speer)-attempted to keep Nazi Germany alive. Taking refuge in Flensburg in northern Germany, they maintained a shadow government for several weeks and tried to keep the Third Reich going until their arrest on May 23, 1945, while living in semi-clandestinity. Their goal was to create the illusion, perhaps to save themselves, that they had simply been following orders. For several weeks, they attempted to rehabilitate Germany's image. Their charm offensive toward the West failed. Beyond this, Emmanuel Droit also reveals something else: some of these leaders enabled the rise of the denialist discourse that has since spread in Germany, inverting reality and presenting Germany as a victim of the war.

A fascinating reconstruction, particularly useful for understanding the political strategies of contemporary Germany.

Emmanuel Droit, *The Last Hours of the Third Reich*, PUF, 2026, 222 pages, EUR19

https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8852
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Link: (en) France, Monde Libertaire - History Pages No. 115: The Final Hours of the Third Reich (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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