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...only allowed Arafat to address us, but we also hugged him, kissed him, fed him and congratulated him, in President Rudenstine's words, on his 20 years of "loyalty to the Palestinian cause." Were he alive today, Adolf Hitler, though "interesting" in the extreme, would still not be among those we would invite to our house, nor would we congratulate the man for his "loyalty" to the German people...
...examines her subject's troubled life and problematic writings in microscopic detail. Sereny extensively interviewed Speer and his wife Margret at their retirement home in Heidelberg and talked with dozens of acquaintances. Her conclusion: emotionally crippled by an unhappy childhood, Speer was a frustrated romantic whose reciprocated love for Hitler--a sublimated, nonsexual but homoerotic devotion--blinded him to dark realities he chose not to see or hear. In effect, Speer existed in what the Dutch Protestant theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft has called "a twilight between knowing and not knowing...
Nonetheless, Sereny believes that by 1943 Speer had certain knowledge of Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews. Thus began what some have called the Great Lie of Speer's life: by continuing to serve the Fuhrer despite his awareness of this abominable crime he became a criminal himself. Even Speer's bravely traitorous effort at war's end to countermand Hitler's scorched-earth policy for Germany was insufficient expiation...
Such longueurs flaw the book, but not fatally. Sereny has probably captured Speer's aloof, elusive persona as well as any writer could. She also usefully reminds that Hitler, for all the evil he inflicted, was not a cartoon monster but a man with immense charisma and even some charm. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth has a rightful place in any library of writings about the Third Reich...
...social commentator Karen Grigsby Bates in the TIME forum of opinions on the "trial of the century." She said Fred Goldman, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman, "brought the Holocaust" into the trial. Goldman was reacting with justifiable outrage to Johnnie Cochran's likening Mark Fuhrman to Hitler. Even though Bates said Goldman has the right to be hurt by the loss of his son, she then characterized Goldman as manipulative when he "played the Holocaust card," as if this were all a game with no real issues and no real consequences. Bates revealed an astonishing lack of sensitivity...