Given the day that's in it --today is Holocaust Memorial Day--I suppose it's a good time to copy over a review from amazon, one I wrote because when I googled the book I was shocked to see how little information in English was to be found--a snippet of film of an Amazon Night, a good essay about it @ http://www.habermehl-web.de/Downloads/Amazon%20Nights.pdf, and not much more::

Night of the Amazons is z novel about Christian Weber, the man awarded charge of the government of Munich under Hitler. Weber was one of the old guard who knew Hitler back in the day when he was known only as a pub bore; he became a brown-shirt and then SS member whose gaze was never averted from the main chance. From the beginning he availed of his Party connections--as well as blackmail, theft, and violence--to become a very rich man. From the beginning he would readily have observed Sabbath or waved a red banner on May Day instead of becoming a Nazi had doing so offered the same opportunities. He was a lout and a thug and Rosendorfer finds not a trace of a redeeming quality, a sympathetic strain, in him.

The story covers the years from the early 1920's until the war's end and is told in a series of episodes and conversations, not always in chronological order, with the author himself sometimes emerging to wonder or elaborate or explain; it's more a coherent collection of nuggets than a linear account. And given the subject, it's unusual in another way: it's amusing. I wouldn't call the book a comic novel any more than I'd call it a standard historical one, but it sometimes made me smile. Wryly. The humour, obviously the product of utter loathing and complete contempt, for the most part lies in a very understated sarcasm and gives the book a power that a simple condemnatory tone wouldn't have..

Rosendorfer and an associate did a tremendous amount of research for the novel, but with few exceptions it's almost impossible to know which details are historical and which fictional. Nearing the end of the book the writer himself steps forward to address this, as he does to explain why he wrote a book about so undeserving a swine as Weber, and here he makes some particularly interesting points about the value of documents and about present-day attitudes toward Nazism.

And by the way, Night of the Amazons is a wonderfully readable book; whenever I put it aside I felt like washing my hands and leaving it aside for a long while, but in the event I was always eager to return to it.