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020			_a9781911214984 (paperback)
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100	1		_aLee, Daniel, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe SS officer's armchair : _bin search of a hidden life / _cDaniel Lee.
246	3		_aSchutzstaffel officer's armchair
260			_aLondon : _bJonathan Cape, _c2020.
300			_a303 pages : _billustrations, maps, portraits ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIt began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer?s Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one Dr Robert Griesinger from Stuttgart. Who was he? What had his life been ? and how had it ended? Lee reveals the strange life of a man whose ambition propelled him to become part of the Nazi machinery of terror. He discovers unexpected ancestors in New Orleans, untold stories of SS life and family fragmentation. As Lee delves deeper, Griesinger?s responsibility as an active participant in Nazi crimes becomes clearer. Dr Robert Griesinger?s name is not infamous. But to understand the inner workings of the Third Reich, we need to know not just its leaders, but the ordinary Nazis who made up its ranks. Revealing how Griesinger?s choices reverberate into present-day Germany, and among descendants of perpetrators, Lee raises potent questions about blame, manipulation and responsibility. A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian?s hunt for answers, The SS Officer?s Armchair is at once a unique addition to our understanding of Nazi Germany and a chilling reminder of how such regimes are made not by monsters, but by ordinary people.
600	1	0	_aGriesinger, Robert.
610	2	0	_aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. _bSchutzstaffel _xOfficers.
610	2	0	_aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. _bSchutzstaffel _xOfficers.
650		0	_aNazis _vBiography.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _zCzechoslovakia.
651		0	_aGermany _xHistory _y1933-1945 _vBiography.
651		0	_aGermany _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945.
651		0	_aCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y1938-1945.
651		0	_aPrague (Czech Republic) _xHistory _y20th century.
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