Roger Moorhouse - Hitlers Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

By its nature, a book of this sort involves asking more favours of more people than a straightforward history does. As well as the advice and expertise sought of fellow historians and academics, there are numerous pictures to be sourced, from archives, museums and auction houses. I had imagined at the outset that finding the pictures to illustrate the book would prove the most difficult and costly part of the process; however thanks to the kind help of many of those listed below it has been a pleasure.

For their specialist and technical knowledge, I would like to thank Lucy Adlington, Chris Evans, Ed van Engeland, Robert Forczyk, Johannes Gelsius, Richard Goldstein, Chris Goss, Joel Greenberg, Peter Jacobs, Nigel Jones, Charles Messenger, James Opie, Lawrence Paterson, Robin Schafer, Jak Showell, Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls, Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, John Walter and Martin Winstone. Matthew James helped with ancillary research; Donald Sommerville mastered the editing and layout, from a design by Allan Bailey. Special thanks must go to Tim Newark for all his hard work and expertise in preparing the text.

The seemingly Sisyphean task of sourcing pictures was eased massively by the wonderfully helpful Sina Nickoleit at Hermann Historica Auctions in Munich, also by the generous assistance of Peter Newark Historical Pictures, Ian Sayer, Gunnar Hansen, Norbert Podlesny at 3reich-collector.com, Edward Petruskevich at the Wilhelm Gustloff Museum, Jim Kreunen at militariaplaza.nl, Kenneth Rendell at the International Museum of World War Two, Michael Foedrowitz, Auktion Team Breker in Cologne, Christine Bernath at the Shropshire Regimental Museum, the Gedenksttte Deutscher Widerstand in Berlin, the Imperial War Museum in London, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City.

Thanks are also due to Professor Richard Overy Britains leading authority on the Third Reich for his kind foreword, and to my publisher, the indomitable Michael Leventhal, without whose vision and drive the project would scarcely have achieved lift-off at all.

Lastly I would like to thank my family for their continued good-humoured tolerance of their author-in-residence, and in particular my parents-in-law, Nic and Eve Smellie, for being so consistently wonderful and redefining the role of in-laws. This book is dedicated to them.

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