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...LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER...
...Young Coachworks, for $250,000. Five years ago, one of the cars was sold for only $8,000 to a dealer by an eccentric Maryland horse breeder who used the car as a hay wagon. The market is glutted with high-priced limousines that were supposedly once owned by Hitler. Most of these, the experts say, are fake...
...Third Reich, Adolf Hitler promised, would last a thousand years. Those who deal in historical ironies have long enjoyed pointing out that it lasted only twelve. Or did it? Once again, a spate of new books on Hitler and his era are setting bookstore shelves abloom with the inevitable swastikas and Chaplinesque mustaches. The 1,000-book Reich-recollected in tranquillity-must surely be near at hand...
...most ballyhooed of the new arrivals is Robert Payne's pop biography, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has reissued Hitler's Secret Conversations ($19), the Führer's wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler biographers have acknowledged as an invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like...
Most of us would like to think that abuse of human subjects at the hands of maniacal experimenters went out of style with Hitler. Those of us who actually believe this are dreamers. In Hitler's heyday, Jews were forcibly subjected to "experimental" and not-so experimental abuse. In 1973 America, blacks, Chicanos, poor whites and prisoners are effectively bribed into selling their bodies (and souls) to researchers. David D. Rutstein, Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Medical School, points out that the Nazi experiments horrified the world because they were designed to answer unethical questions like "How long...