The book by Samuel Mitchum and Gene Mueller offers the reader a new perspective on the men running the Nazi war machine. The authors of this unique study go beyond stereotypical images of the military commanders of the Third Reich to explore the human nature of those who unleashed the bloodiest war in human history. The reader learns about Ernst Udet, whose incompetence caused serious damage to German aviation, the genius of military strategy Walter Wefer, the commander of the SS tank division "Totenkopf" Helmut Becker, the son of the Jewish pharmacist Erhard Milch, who was able to become the number two man in the Luftwaffe... S. Mitcham - author of a number of books about the Second World War - “Luftwaffe Officers”, “Rommel’s War in the Desert”, “Hitler’s Legionnaires”.