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Role Playing. Such self-conscious role playing was the very fabric of Hitler's life, says Fest. The book, not surprisingly, often presents the Führer in the ebb and flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich...
...chronological drama with a kind of intermission-"interpolations," he calls them-in which he examines such historical topics as the "great dread" that afflicted Germans during the chaotic Weimar era. Hitler's foolish and criminal rush into war ("War is life," he said), and the Führer's relationship to the forces of German history. The author rejects the line of thought that explains Hitler by tracing the Führer's philosophical antecedents back through centuries of Teutonic mysticism and blood-dimmed sense of divine mission. He also rejects the simple-minded apologists...
Serious Issue. The new magazine's detractors fear that such nostalgia could ignite latent neo-fascism today. The liberal weekly Die Zeit attacked it as a slickly packaged Making of Der Führer. Conservative readers are already complaining that Reich maligns and distorts Nazism's objectives. The magazine's advance promotional blitz was particularly upsetting. It featured decorative political posters of the '30s, tiny swastika flags, and throwaway recordings of Nazi party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After...
...were being subjected to even worse persecution than we astrologers." Or, even worse, " 'You must meet Himmler,' Kersten told me. 'You'll like him. He is a nice man.' " So Wulff, who had been arrested in a roundup of astrologers after Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to England (Hess was believed to have consulted astrologers about the most favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch at the castle of Heinrich Himmler, commander of the concentration camps and the SS. Wulff was impressed by "the cordiality of his welcome...
From then on, Himmler apparently inundated Wulff with demands. When would Hitler die? Wulff claims he predicted the Führer's demise for the end of April 1945 (the actual date was April 30). Would the Yalta Conference succeed? Should he flee to the Alps? Wulff rarely tells us his answers, much less any of his reasons for them. He whines consistently about being overworked and the increasing frustrations of dealing with Himmler's entourage. He says that he continued vainly urging Himmler to overthrow Hitler, and there are moments when he actually seems to think that...