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"May this book help me to be clearer in spirit, simpler in thought, greater in love." Unlikely as it may seem, so begin the voluminous diaries of one of modern history's most diabolical figures: Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich. Despite these noble intentions, the entry...
Glimpses of Goebbels' extensive chronicles have dribbled out piecemeal over the past 39 years, but late last month readers had their first comprehensive look at the Nazi's early writings with the publication of four volumes, running to 2,841 pages, by Munich's Institute of Contemporary History. Last week...
Ever since the Hitler diary scandal of 1983, scholars have been leery of late-surfacing relics from the Third Reich. But academicians seem to agree that these diaries are authentic. Goebbels is known to have kept meticulous journals, and the content jibes with existing historical records. Forensic tests have turned...
No less fascinating than the diaries themselves were Goebbels' efforts to protect them. As the British bombed German cities, he had 20 clothbound notebooks placed in a bank vault. Later he had the entire inventory put on microfiche. In the final days of the Third Reich he arranged for several...
Not today. Despite a painfully difficult dialogue with the American Administration and despite the unfortunate failure in mutual understanding at Reykjavik -- and even though a West European leader let slip a shocking comparison of our leader with Goebbels -- glasnost is expanding and gaining in strength. True, it is sometimes sabotaged...