Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roots, Haley (2) 2-Passages, Sheehy (1) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 4-Blind Ambition, Dean (4) 5-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (5) 6-Adolf Hitler, Toland (6) 7-Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 8-The Hite Report, Hite (8) 9-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (9) 10-To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow...
...time of almost intolerable hardship and exertion ... But for my deep-seated urge to pursue the strange and the beautiful, heedless of time, danger and discomfort, these pictures would never have been taken." So trumpets Leni Riefenstahl, whose previous pursuits of the strange included making effective propaganda films for Hitler's Third Reich (Triumph of the Will). Now 74 and a photographer of the black African people of the Sudan, Riefenstahl still prefers to surround herself and her subjects with clouds of Sturm und Drang. Last year's volume, The Last of the Nuba, photographically displayed Mesakin tribesmen...
Toland is all too gullible about some of those witnesses. The book records without serious question things like the claim of Dr. Erwin Giesing that he tried to assassinate Hitler with an overdose of cocaine. Toland also relishes obscure detail to the point of tedium. He includes, for instance, a minute description of the shower facilities at the men's home in Vienna where a young and impoverished Hitler lived for three years just before World War I. Yet in larger matters Toland strays woefully from the record. He asserts that Hitler was "still a member in good standing...
Wagnerian Drama. Why then are so many Americans buying yet another book on Hitler? One reason may simply be Toland's dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that...
...Adolf Hitler, Toland...