Max Amann

[trespasser07]

Has anyone got any in-deph information on Hitler's publisher? His role before and during the war and also personal information on character etc?

Thanks.

[coburg22]

Wikipedia has some general information stating he was power hungry, took over any newspapers that were not conforming to the government, a horrible speaker, debater and could not write very well which was done by one of his deputies. He didn't seem very strong within the Party, kinda like Walter Buch and Karl Fiehler as it was more out of his association with Hitler that gave him the power rather then on his own but then again most of them were that way, right?

Best,

James

[Michael Miller]

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[jeffhan373]

There's also a lot of information on Amann in "The Captive Press in the Third Reich," by Oron J. Hale, which is readily available. Under Amann's tight-fisted and petty regime the Eher Verlag and the Voelkischer Beobachter were not exactly good places to work!

[trespasser07]

I will check out your suggestions thanks for them! Anyone aware of Amann's height as he looks shorter than even Goebbels to me!

[trespasser07]

Mike again your expertise has helped me find helpful information many thanks!

[trespasser07]

Thanks you Jeffhan I will see if I can get a copy of the book is it a good read?

Trespasser07.

[jeffhan373]

If you're interested in publishing during the Third Reich, and the workings of Max Amann's empire, it's a must. Well written too, with much data not available anywhere else.

Amann was considerably shorter than Dr. Goebbels. A photo of the two of them at Wolfsschanze taken in 1943 makes this quite apparent. Amann was commonly referred to by his many detractors as "Hitler's poison dwarf"...

[trespasser07]

Thanks Jeffhan again! So he must have been around the 5'4 mark! I will get myself a copy of the book as i'm quite interested in this man

Again thanks

Trespasser07

[Oberhessin]

You get a good impression on the poison dwarf, if you browse through this forum and search the pictures from the Commemoration marches on the 9.th of november, for instance here: viewtopic.php?f=45&t=63658
On the colour picture from 11.56 you can see Amanns head on the right.

[jeffhan373]

Little Max had his 50th birthday in the fall of 1941. The entire German press industry bent over backwards producing lavish tributes to their boss. A spectacular enormous volume titled "Max Amann - Ein Leben fuer Fuehrer und Volk" was done in an edition of 200 copies, which Amann supposedly gave out to cronies. Even more spectacular books were produced in tiny quantities ( 5 - 20) and are described in Hale's book. I 'd like to see them some day!

[trespasser07]

Some of the leaders egos were clearly as mad as the regime!!

Trespasser07

[trespasser07]

Is there any info re the loss of his arm and who was responsible for this during the hunting trip on which it happened.

[jeffhan373]

He lost it on a hunting trip with Ritter von Epp in 1931. I haven't found any further details on the incident, i.e., did he shoot himself? Or was it Epp or someone else in the party...

[Oberhessin]

There was a trial in Munich because the socialdemokratic Munich Post published an article that incident was an attempt to murder Amann. The murderers should have been his enemies in the party. But you find nothing on the real incident in all the files, and I have read a lot of them including his Spruchkammer file.