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Goebbels clearly blames the Wehr-macht's generals for Germany's plight, accusing them of lacking imagination and leadership. "It is a shame that the Führer has so few respectable military men on his staff." His most venomous blasts are reserved for Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Goring. Demanding that "the Führer [turn] Goring into a man again," Goebbels exclaims: "Bemedaled idiots and vain perfumed coxcombs have no place in our war leadership." Thanks to Goring's uninterrupted record of incompetence, argues Goebbels, the Luftwaffe has failed to wield the air superiority essential for victory...
Even Hitler is not immune. Although Goebbels records frequently that "the sight of the Führer is always thrilling," he is growing impatient with the dictator's refusal to take advice. Particularly vexing is Hitler's reluctance to try to lift the country's faltering morale by broadcasting a speech. The propaganda chief reminds Hitler that in the dark hours after Dunkirk, Churchill rallied Britons with a moving address, as did Stalin during the attack on Moscow. Yet Hitler remains adamant, and a dejected Goebbels writes: "The Führer has an aversion to the microphone...
...instance Nancy Mitford, one of the Mad Young Things of the '20s and a bitter-comic novelist in her own right, who ended up in self-imposed exile in Paris, musing about Louis XIV. Or consider the two fascist Mitfords: Diana, who married Sir Oswald Mosley, Führer of the British Blackshirts, and Unity, a prized exotic of Hitler's inner circle until she shot herself in the head the day World War II was declared...
...scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring a nationwide re-examination of the Nazi past...
...German generals that he had solved the "Jewish problem," Himmler declared: "You can imagine how I felt executing this soldierly order issued to me, but I obediently complied and carried it out to the best of my convictions." Nowhere else, Irving claims, did Himmler hint at a "Führer order" behind the genocide. But Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, argues that "Hitler had told his entourage to 'put as little down on paper as possible.' That an explicit and clear verbal order for genocide was given by Hitler...