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The Prisoner of Spandau

Alan Milward, 7 August 1986

My Father Rudolf Hess 
by Wolf Rüdiger Hess, translated by Fred Crowley.
W.H. Allen, 414 pp., £14.95, March 1986, 0 491 03772 4
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Long Knives and Short Memories: The Spandau Prison Story 
by Jack Fishman.
Souvenir, 474 pp., £15.95, June 1986, 0 285 62688 4
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Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus: Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik 
by Gisela Bock.
Westdeutscher Verlag, 494 pp., April 1986, 3 531 11759 9
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Prelude to Genocide: Nazi Ideology and the Struggle for Power 
by Simon Taylor.
Duckworth, 228 pp., £19.50, October 1985, 0 7156 1872 5
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... in which he so firmly believed into action will suffice. It is analysed in the interesting book by Gisela Bock. Six months after it took power, the Nazi Government passed the law of 14 July 1933 on ‘The Prevention of a New Generation Affected with Hereditary Illness’ – a law which gave the state the power of compulsory sterilisation in certain ...

Alien to the Community

Richard J. Evans: Eugenics in Germany, 11 September 2025

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s 20th Century 
by Dagmar Herzog.
Princeton, 312 pp., £30, November 2024, 978 0 691 26170 6
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... the situation really began to change in West Germany, thanks largely to two people: the historian Gisela Bock, who in Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus, a major work of academic history, established that sterilisation and ‘euthanasia’ were part of the racist policies of the Nazis; and the campaigning journalist Ernst Klee, who wrote a series ...

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