Hitler’s Ambivalent Attache: Lt. Gen. Friedrich Von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941

Although Friedrich von Boetticher produced a rich and detailed commentary on military and political affairs during his time in Washington, he was nonetheless accused after the war of misjudging America’s productive potential and misleading Hitler. His life, as Beck argues, permits a glimpse into the sociology of a conservative officer caste at once assailed by the politics of a regime and the impossibilities imposed on it.