Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...genocidal hero Old Shatterhand was busy exterminating the insidious "Ogellelah" Indians. From Payne's researches in the New York Public Library come telling excerpts from the unpublished memoirs of Hitler's sister-in-law, Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, especially tantalizing glimpses of the impoverished, slothful future Führer in his early 20s, frittering away six months in Bridget's Liverpool home...
...attack Gibraltar through Spain. Franco and Hitler met for nine hours one day in 1940 to discuss the question. By the end of their conversation, Hitler was unnerved by Franco's high-pitched monotone. "The man is not cut out to be a politician," the Führer complained later. "I would rather have three or four teeth pulled out than go through that again...
...hunters of heads or headlines, no war criminal has been a more tantalizing quarry than Adolf Hitler's evil aide Martin Bormann. Since he vanished from Hitler's Berlin bunker the night after the Führer committed suicide in 1945, Bormann has been reported found hundreds of times: living as a recluse in the Amazon jungle, for instance, or masquerading as a monk in Italy. But none of the reports have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim...
...Langer, the difference between Hitler and other psychopaths was "his ability to convince others that he is what he is not." He could never quite convince himself, however, because the Führer personality never permanently supplanted his old self. Hitler, Langer said, "is not a single personality but two that inhabit the same body. The one is very soft and sentimental and indecisive. The other is hard, cruel and decisive. The first weeps at the death of a canary; the second cries that 'there will be no peace in the land until a body hangs from every lamppost...