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100			_aLee, Daniel, _d1983- author. _eauthor. _947440
245	1	4	_aThe S.S. officer's armchair : _buncovering the hidden life of a Nazi / _cDaniel Lee.
246	3		_aUncovering the hidden life of a Nazi
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
300			_axiv, 303 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 252-282) and index.
505	0		_aList of illustrations and maps -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- A "real" Nazi -- Inheriting ideas from the New World -- "Zero hour" -- The "war-youth" generation -- Hollow talk -- The SS family -- Lebensraum -- Stavyshche -- Beer bottles -- The man on the Bahnhofstrasse -- Gisela went out to dance -- Epilogue.
520			_aBased on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two encapsulates the tragic experience of a generation of Europeans. One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he was repairing. They belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labor in Nazi-occupied Prague during the war. An expert in the history of the Holocaust, Lee was fascinated to know more about this man--and how his most precious documents ended up hidden inside a chair, hundreds of miles from Prague and Stuttgart. In The S.S. Officer's Armchair, Lee weaves detection with biography to tell an astonishing narrative of ambition and intimacy in the Third Reich. He uncovers Griesinger's American back-story--his father was born in New Orleans and the family had ties to the plantations and music halls of nineteenth century Louisiana. As Lee follows the footsteps of a rank and file Nazi official seventy years later, and chronicles what became of him and his family at the war's end, Griesinger's role in Nazi crimes comes into focus. When Lee stumbles on an unforeseen connection between Griesinger and the murder of his own relatives in the Holocaust, he must grapple with potent questions about blame, manipulation, and responsibility. The S.S. Officer's Armchair is an enthralling detective story and a reconsideration of daily life in the Third Reich. It provides a window into the lives of Hitler's millions of nameless followers and into the mechanisms through which ordinary people enacted history's most extraordinary atrocity.
520			_aAn upholsterer in Amsterdam found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair; they belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labor in Nazi-occupied Prague during the war. As Lee follows the footsteps of a rank and file Nazi official and chronicles what became of him and his family at the war's end, Griesinger's role in Nazi crimes comes into focus. As Lee investigates the life of this S.S. officer during World War Two, he also encapsulates the tragic experience of a generation of Europeans. -- adapted from jacket
600		0	_aGriesinger, Robert Arnold. _947441
600		0	_aGriesinger, Robert Arnold. _xFamily. _947442
610		0	_aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. _bSchutzstaffel _xOfficers. _947443
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _zCzechoslovakia _916630 _vFiction.
650		0	_aArmed Forces _xOfficers _2fast _924097 _vFiction.
651		0	_aCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y1938-1945. _947444
651		0	_aPrague (Czech Republic) _xHistory _y20th century. _947445
655		0	_aBiographies. _945863
655		0	_aBiographies. _945863
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