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Author Breitman, Richard, 1947- author.

Title The Berlin mission : the American who resisted Nazi Germany from within / Richard Breitman.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B GEIST RAYMOND    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  943.0049 BREITMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Biographies  B GEIST RAYMOND B    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-307) and index.
Summary An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the U.S. consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.come.
Contents Visas -- The rise of the Nazis -- Americans encounter the Nazi revolution -- Very private lives -- Probing the new state -- Immigration and emigration -- Post-Olympic competition -- Austria and Freud -- The refugee crisis -- Kristallnacht -- Testing Göring -- Children -- Toward war -- From afar -- Indirect influence.
Subject Geist, Raymond Herman, 1885-1955.
Consuls -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Consuls. (OCoLC)fst00876196
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9781541742161 (hardcover)
1541742168 (hardcover)
9781541742178 (hardcover)
1541742176 (hardcover)
Standard No. 40029538726
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