Evil Genius: Joseph Goebbels

Hagen, Louis

Meissner, Hans Otto

EBERMAYER, ERICH

Tandem

When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin after the war, he wanted to see what had happened to the people. He selected 9 people he had known before the war - 4 Nazis, 3 collaborators, 2 non-Nazis - and interviewed them at length. He presents their own stories and their own thoughts in the same way.

Ein Volk, Ein Reich: Nine Lives Under the Nazis

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The History Press

A tale of great heroism and tragic misjudgement, by an extraordinary man with an extraordinary story to tell
Our huts had been locked and left just as they were when we left them on Monday morning. We took the keys, went in and sat down on our beds. The four of us looked round the hut. There were eighteen empty beds. It was very quiet now . . . 
Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, 1,400 were killed over nine days, and more than 6,000—about a third of them wounded—were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an "enemy alien" who had escaped to England having been imprisoned and tortured in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy just a few years earlier, was one of the minority who made it back. What makes this book so unforgettable is not only the breathtaking drama of the story itself, it is the unmistakable talent of the writer. The narrative was first published anonymously in 1945. When 45 years later at a dinner party in Germany, Louis Hagen met Major Winrich Behr, Adjutant to Field Marshal Model at Arnhem, Louis added Behr's side of the story to add even more insight to the original work.

Arnhem Lift

Leaders & Notable People

Lousi Hagen, as a young German Jew in 1934, aged only 17, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. His time there was mercifully cut short when he was released to his school friend's father, a senior Nazi Judge, and he escaped to the UK, immediately joining up to fight the Nazis upon the outbreak of war. During his adventurous army career, he became a Glider Pilot and famously fought at Arnhem, swimming the Rhine to escape the German army, subsequently awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He wrote the bestselling Arnhem Lift only three weeks after his return, initially published anonymously, and ultimately successful all over the world. After Arnhem, Hagen was transferred to India, becoming a war correspondent and travelling around southeast Asia. Post-war, he continued to write, and set up a film production company. This gripping, lively, often racy, and never-flinching autobiography reveals Hagen's life in candid detail, the perfect companion to his bestselling book Arnhem Lift.

Suddenly an Englishman: 'The Life of Louis Hagen' and 'Arnhem Lift, A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment'

Arts & Literature

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