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	Joachim Fest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joachim C. Fest (born December 8, 1926 in Berlin) is a German journalist and author, best known in English-speaking countries for his work with Albert Speer while writing his memoirs, and his biography of Adolf Hitler.
		Nevertheless, he was drafted and served in the Wehrmacht during World War II, which ended while he was held as a prisoner of war in France.
		During his editorship of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Fest became involved in the Historikerstreit, where he was generally identifited with the conservative position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joachim_Fest (364 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Hitler's revenge on Germany
		Fest is no apologist for the dictator, but he has always argued that reducing Hitler's guilt to the Jewish genocide was 'a catastrophic distortion' of history, diverting attention from the slaughter and destruction he inflicted upon other peoples and upon the Germans themselves.
		The purpose of Fest's new book seems to be to show that Hitler in those 'last days' was not a nerveless, babbling wreck, as sometimes described, but a tyrant still retaining his grip on his followers who was carrying out his final plan.
		Fest denies that Hitler was the natural heir of German history, which was the Nazi explanation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1189543,00.html (1063 words)

	Rezension - Stoltzfus über Fest
		Fest acknowledges that "most readers" are "quite familiar" with the July 20, 1944 plot, but he wants to bring attention to the fact that well before then, "a substantial number of Germans had come to despise Hitler and his policies" (2-6).
		Fest faults Germany's deeply rooted "authoritarian heritage" for a continuing ambiguity among Germans as to whether the July 20 conspirators were traitors or resisters (3).
		Fest notes that Justus Delbruck, on the day after the attempted coup, "captured the pathos and paradox of the resistance" with his statement: "I think it was good that it happened, and good too, perhaps, that it did not succeed" (343).
	hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de /REZENSIO/buecher/stna0798.htm (4345 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Inside Hitler's Bunker: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fest is very good on Hitler's need to destroy, but he also paints a not altogether unsympathetic picture of a man in physical, moral and mental decline, with a continuous tremor and a prodigious appetite for cake.
		Fest is particularly good on the nature of history and its interpretation and on how difficult it can be to unravel the truth behind even recent events, as different interested parties seek to place a different spin on them.
		Joachim Fest is a distinguished German journalist and the author of an acclaimed biography of Hitler.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330431706 (1258 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Speer: The Final Verdict, 1.30.03
		Indeed, as German historian Joachim Fest concludes in "Speer: The Final Verdict," he was the archetype of the organization man, that stalwart symbol of industrial capitalism and the bedrock of middle classes the world over.
		Nevertheless, Fest is unconvinced the turn had anything to do with a sudden moral awakening; rather, it was rooted in Speer's fear of watching Hitler destroy the infrastructure and economy he had helped build (and, Fest ventures, that he hoped to oversee as a part of whatever post-war government emerged).
		Fest argues from almost the first page that one cannot understand Speer without understanding his relationship with Hitler, and the majority of his analysis revolves around dissecting their odd relationship — at times homoerotic, at times verging on emotionally sadistic.
	www.flakmag.com /books/speer.html (830 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| He died to the sound of partying
		Joachim Fest is the author of excellent biographies of Hitler and Speer.
		Fest describes a dramatic outburst in the bunker at the end of April 1945 when Hitler's chief adjutant, General Wilhelm Burgdorf, suddenly understood the nature of the monsters he had served.
		Fest is no more able than any other man convincingly to explain why, given that this was so, even most of those intimately familiar with Hitler remained loyal to the bitter end.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/04/18/bofes18.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/04/18/bomain.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=114187 (1025 words)

	Hitler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joachim C. Fest, is the strongest pillar of facts, about the man, and is a monument of literary excellence.
		Fest lacks more information on Hitler in WWI, and of why he was awarded the "Iron Cross First Class", it is still the best book.
		Fest's accomplishment here is that each section on Hitler is straddled by a section describing other events in the world and Germany, always giving the reader a larger context in which Hitler's activities can be placed.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0156027542.html (534 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fest begins by pointing out that his book is intended for a wide audience of general readers, not specialists who already know that in fact there was resistance throughout Hitler's rule.
		Fest first takes us through a history of a number of the failed plots and people responsible before sending the second half of the book on the plot that actually got the closest with a bomb blast injuring Hitler.
		Fest describes the set up of the plot, what was to take place after the assassination in regards to taking control of the German government and the assumptions of what would happen with the war.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/080504213X (1047 words)

	Downfall: Almost the Same Old Story
		Like much of Fest’s earlier writings, his book about the last days in the bunker is informed by the self-serving memoirs of the convicted war criminal and efficient organiser of Germany’s war machine, Albert Speer.
		It was Fest who helped Speer to reinvent himself as Hitler’s former architect who repented and atoned for his sins, and to make his contemporaries forget that he was one of Hitler’s most prominent and most faithful henchmen.
		Fest has been an influential public figure in Germany, both as the long-time editor of the conservative broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and as a historian.
	www.rouge.com.au /6/downfall.html (2267 words)

	H-Soz-u-Kult / Rezensionen / Rez. NS: J. Fest: Plotting Hitler's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From the former East Germany to the countries of the former Soviet Union, a paramount challenge in the 1990s for democracy generally -- and for German unification specifically -- is the growth of individual courage and sense of social responsibility which provide the backbone of civil society.
		Joachim Fest, the famed German journalist and moderate conservative who has written one of the best biographies of Adolf Hitler (1973) and a book portraying Hitler's closest henchmen (1963), has now written a history of the German conspiracy to kill Hitler.
		Fest lauds men of "action" in contrast with the "inaction" of resignation.
	hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de /rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=426 (4243 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		Joachim Fest, the German historian and biographer, has pursued Hitler’s ghost for most of his 78 years, probably longer than any professional.
		Fest is the first to capture that quality in Inside Hitler’s Bunker, which is bound to be a classic.
		Fest reports that Hitler once told his chief diplomat, Joachim Ribbentrop, “You know, Ribbentrop, if I were to come to an agreement with Russia today, I would attack them tomorrow—I can’t help myself.” His ambition, he said, was to be remembered as a “man unlike any who had ever existed before.”
	www.crisismagazine.com /january2005/book3.htm (915 words)

	Literary briefs
		Fest, a leading German historian of the Nazi period, focuses on the last few weeks of the regime inside the Fuehrer Bunker underneath the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin.
		Fest notes that he ordered construction begun on the first one in 1933, the year he became chancellor.
		Fest's material has been covered elsewhere, but he effectively summarizes the bizarrely theatrical atmosphere of the bunker after Hitler insisted in January, 1945, on moving back to the German capital that he had avoided throughout most of the war years.
	www.suntimes.com /output/books/sho-sunday-briefs04.html (378 words)

	Powell's Books - Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance by Joachim Fest
		Fest recounts in vivid detail the events leading up to the July 20, 1944 attempt by German anti-Nazi conspirators to kill Hitler with a bomb, and for the first time, brings to a popular audience the full story of the German resistance.
		Joachim Fest is one of Germany's most prominent and respected journalists.
		Born in Berlin in 1926, Fest was drafted into the German army at the age of fifteen and spent two years as an American prisoner of war.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0805056483-0 (170 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Plotting Hitler's Death by Joachim Fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		...JOACHIM FEST is not one to grind axes...
		...Fest (aided here by the felicitous translation of Bruce Little), returns them to life in an almost literary manner, confronting us not only with their heroism but also with their strange diffidence...
		...Fest's story begins in 1934, when, even as the Wehrmacht as a whole was succumbing to Der Fiihrer, three leading figures of the resistance-to-beFranz Halder, Henning von Tresckow, and Hans Oster-moved into opposition.* By 1938, at the height of Hitler's prestige and power, they were ready to strike-as they would be again in 1939...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V103I2P72-1.htm (1853 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fest's may not be the last word, either, as he notes that historians have not yet accessed some Soviet interrogation records of Hitler's retinue.
		Fest, who is the author of one of the most authoritative biographies on Hitler, focuses on the final few days of the Third Reich in his new book.
		Fest does a great job at describing the general disorganization and confusion of those final days, and showing just have bad Berlin had been destroyed by the Russian and American assault upon it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374135770 (1611 words)

	Amazon.com: Plotting Hitler's Death : The Story of German Resistance: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fest would like us to like them, but he is too formidable a historian to succumb to easy typecasting.
		Fest points out that there was not one unified group or movement of resistance against Hitler; rather there were numerous groups that acted separately and often held differing views.
		Fest focuses on the three groups who were the only ones able to develop a strategy that posed a genuine threat to the regime.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805056483?v=glance (2150 words)

	Architect of Third Reich remains an enigma
		But Fest's research shows that Speer left the conference immediately after his own speech, and that Goldhagen "freely invented" some of the phrases and tried to pass them off as Himmler's actual speech.
		Despite this professional closeness, Fest is seemingly able to remain detached when discussing Speer's irritating habit of simply ignoring what he did not care to hear coming from Hitler or his genocidal colleagues.
		Fest turns Speer into the singular aloof intellectual among the wolf pack that accompanied Hitler from rise to fall.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/06/RV23718.DTL (742 words)

	The Attraction of Totalitarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joachim Fest’s The Face of the Third Reich is easily one of the best books to appear in the last decade and certainly one of the most informative about the Nazi era.** His is an analytic approach to the personality and “psychological background” of the Nazi leaders, a courageous venture, for Mr.
		Fest is entering areas of character, motives, weaknesses, and strengths where conservative historians traditionally fear to tread.
		If this is so (both Fest and Castelot make strong cases for it), the civilian and soldier the world over have much to learn from the study of those periods of stress and strain wherein the era is ripe for “the man” and the man appears to match the era.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1972/may-jun/flammer.html (1986 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In fact, writes Fest, Hitler’s stooping appearance and the visible effort with which he dragged himself along the bunker increased his hypnotic power.
		Fest writes that Hitler remained in total command till the end.
		Fest concludes by saying that instead of relying on structural factors and the concept of “special path of German history”, it is necessary to have indepth studies on accidental figures like Hitler.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040723/asp/opinion/story_3524663.asp (848 words)

	Hitler's bunker, secretary show banality of evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fest notes that he ordered construction on the Berlin one in 1933, the year he became chancellor.
		Fest's material has been covered elsewhere, including in last year's excellent "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor.
		But Fest effectively summarizes the bizarrely theatrical atmosphere of the bunker after Hitler moved for the last time to Berlin in January 1945.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04116/305525.stm (659 words)

	Hitler - A Career (Joachim Fest) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charting Hitler's improbable rise from provincial rabble-rouser to Germany's messianic Führer, Fest probes the reasons why, drawing upon an unprecedented array of film sources in showing Hitler's mastery of imagery and crowd psychology, and his consummate skill in exploiting others weaknesses.
		Particularly valuable is Fest's account of the fateful years 1932 and 1933, when, playing off economic crisis, frustrated German nationalism, and the desperation of Germany s conservative elites, Hitler bluffed his way into office, then moved with ruthless efficiency to seize absolute power.
		Examining the public and private dynamics of Nazism's unhinged dictatorship, Fest uncovers the deeper logics for the devastation and horrors that followed.
	www.ihffilm.com /797.html (188 words)

	Joachim Fest -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His father was strongly opposed to the (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazis, and did not allow him to join the (Click link for more info and facts about Hitler Youth) Hitler Youth.
		He also served as the editorial aide for (German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981)) Albert Speer when the former Nazi official worked on his autobiography, (Click link for more info and facts about Inside the Third Reich) Inside the Third Reich.
		After Speer's death, and due to controversey over the reliability of his memoirs, Fest wrote an analysis on Speer's motives, Speer: The Final Verdict.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joachim_fest.htm (322 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| 'The war is lost!'
		Here is Fest describing Hitler's moment of truth: "Utterly beside himself, he pounded his fist into his palm while tears ran down his face.
		Fest publishes a faked photograph of his "corpse" taken for Stalin's propaganda purposes, but Soviet claims are utterly unreliable.
		All that was left of Hitler, Fest concludes, were his false teeth, contained in a cigar box found in the rubble.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/04/18/bofes218.xml (821 words)

	Spectator, The: Arms and the ambiguous man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joachim Fest's biography is the most rounded and satisfactory of the various studies to date.
		Fest, a writer of immense experience and stature, wastes no words: Speer's rather spartan upbringing, his architectural achievements, the prison experience, are spelled out and put into perspective, and I especially admired the succinctness with which he covered the experience of the wartime economy.
		According to Richard Overy (to whose work Fest might have given some prominence, as he is the best historian of the Luftwaffe), Speer sabotaged some programmes quite early on in order to discredit his own predecessor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200111/ai_n9016193 (1248 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ultimately, says Joachim Fest, the principal German historian of the Nazi period, it was Hitler’s intention to create “a desert, void of civilisation”.
		Fest believes Hitler, unusual even among despots, was wholly destructive, his over- riding goal being to “smash everything to pieces”.
		Nowhere is this better portrayed than in Fest’s depiction of life inside that foetid, labyrinthine bunker, a world apart from the rest of humanity, where unreality ruled unchecked.
	www.sundayherald.com /print41446 (1568 words)

	ESR \| May 10, 2004 \| Hitler's final victims - A review of Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
		Fest goes beyond the events -- as best we are able to reconstruct them -- and to try and provide context for them.
		Fest paints a vivid picture of those final days; life dominated by endless staff meetings that were punctuated by bad news from the battlefield.
		The bunker itself was a claustrophobic nightmare complete with light bulbs that hung from bare wires from the ceiling, an underground series of chambers that reeked of the diesel fuel that powered the facility and the urine from nearby washrooms.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0504/0504insidehitlersbunker.htm (890 words)

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