People Under Hitler
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 392 pages. Epilogue: World Counter-Revolution. Bibliographical note. Index. Part of DJ flaps pasted inside front and rear boards. Some discoloration inside boards, on fep, and on some pages. Some pencil marks and erasures noted. Wallace Ranking Deuel was born in 1905. After attending the University of Illinois, he worked as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News in New York City. In 1935 he became chief of the Berlin bureau. Deuel wrote about his experiences in Nazi Germany in his books, Hitler and Nazi Germany Uncensored (1941) and People Under Hitler (1942). During the Second World War he became special assistant to the director of the Office of Strategic Services and an political adviser to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the war he became diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Daily News (1945-1949). This was followed by a spell working for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired from the CIA in 1972. Wallace Ranking Deuel died in May, 1974. “People Under Hitler,” was an account of his observations of German life in the Nazi era, and a thoroughgoing knowledge of the German mentality. “People Under Hitler,” published in 1942, drew this comment from The Times Book Review: “Its description of the systematic away in which liberty has been extracted from German life is accurate, in part novel, and, definitely interesting and informative.”. Condition: Good.
Keywords: WWII, Germany, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Jews, Anti-Semitism, Ribbentrop, Racism, Alfred Rosenberg, Sterilization, Birth Rate, Goering, Goebbels, Robert Lay, Nordic, Aryan, Racism
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