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...contrition and basic decency. Unfortunately, the story didn't bear up too well under closer scrutiny. Speer's account diverged sharply from the facts in several places and from believability at others--the accolades of many critics notwithstanding. Speer was in fact a dedicated Nazi, who had joined Himmler's Storm Troopers in 1931 and the S.S. a year later. He never opposed such things as the Scorched Earth Policy on moral grounds; his main concern was that all that fine machinery be preserved. Though it receives little attention in his first book, Speer was a generally enthusiastic supporter...
...Washington Post of February 23, 1976, correspondent Michael Getler reports from Germany that Albert Speer had told him, among others, that he was greatly troubled by a forthcoming book in which he will be accused of having been present when Himmler announced on October 6, 1943 that the Jews were being systematically exterminated. This would give the lie to his protestations that he had not known of the slaughter of the Jews...
...assume that Speer was referring to my own book in preparation. But the accusation, when it appears, will not be a new one; for I had made it in an article in "Midstream" in October 1971. There, I proved, by reproducing the hitherto unpublished speech of Himmler's, that Speer was a witting accomplice in the murder of European Jewry. In that speech of October 6 1943 Himmler announced that the Jewish people "must disappear from the face of the earth" and that all Jewish men, women and children were being exterminated. He went on to complain that some Germans...
...television and shortly to be released all over Europe, is built around interviews with survivors and former officials of Lebensborn. In the film's most poignant se quence, an aged Polish woman pleads for some sign of affection from her daughter, taken as a girl from her by Himmler's men and now, 32 years later, a hausfrau in Flensburg, West Germany. Next on the screen is a lawyer coolly explaining that the daughter considers herself German and has no desire to remember the past...
...return the kidnaped children. Besides, the Hillels say, in the cold war atmosphere of 1946 and 1947, the Allies were reluctant to drain West Germany of potentially valuable citizens, particularly those who would have to be returned to Communist-held lands. After exhaustive research, the Hillels concluded that Himmler's plan to build a Nordic superrace was a failure on its own terms. "A superrace?" asks a German nurse who cared for children at one Lebensborn center after the war. "Not at all. These children were a mixture of bright, average and retarded. They were quiet and unexpressive, like...