Hitler's Personal Security: Protecting the Führer, 1921-1945

by Peter Hoffmann

"I am immortal!" exulted Hitler in the wake of the failed assassination plot of July 20, 1944. As Peter Hoffmann shows in this startling book, that bombing was only the best known of more than thirty attempts on Hitler's life, the first coming as early as 1921, when he was the leader of the German worker's party. Using extensive archival material, Hoffmann details these assassination plots and outlines the fanatically complex security measures that developed to keep Hitler safe. He analyzes Hitler's SS escort and the other security groups responsible for his life—there were so many of them that they often counteracted one another—together with their arrangements for his transportation, public appearances, residences, and wartime headquarters. Providing remarkable new information about the workings of those devoted to defending and destroying him, this book is an invaluable contribution to the history of the Third Reich.

Genres: World War II, History, Military Fiction, Nonfiction

333 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

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April 10th, 2020: Added to TBR after reading Guarding Hitler

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The copy I read had very fine print with a lot words on a page, which was hard for a guy Sixty-one years old to read. One thing I have never heard before was that Hitler sat in a arm chair on one of his planes, and had an escape hatch under his chair. All he had to do was pull a red lever and he would drop out of the plane. What a comical sight that would have been. It seems unusual how he kept from being assassinated with so many attempts being made on his life. Obviously Hitler's security had more holes in it than swiss cheese.