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...basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about his "good and human" nature. He was the sort of man, she recalls, who could be tempted into cheating on his vegetarian diet with liver dumplings. As Winni tells it, der Führer had "immensely appealing" eyes, played the piano "very nicely," and was "really touching with the children...
With Jews, too? Their persecution, insists Winni, was not der Führer's doing. "The main instigator was [Julius] Streicher [Gauleiter of Franconia]," Winni says, though she does concede that Adolf "let himself be influenced too much and shouldn't have given in to these radical demands." In any case, she adds, such things "were happening on the outside. But that didn't affect...
...literally the master builder of the Third Reich-designing the monumental edifices that fulfilled his Führer's passion for grandeur-as well as the man who kept the Nazi war machine supplied. Now Albert Speer is content with more modest projects: writing his memoirs. When it was published six years ago, his Inside the Third Reich-a devastatingly intimate look at life within Hitler's inner circle-became an instant bestseller in West Germany and reached a wide audience abroad. The onetime Nazi architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed...
...Allies for the sole purpose of locking up Speer and six other senior Nazi officials. To this day the U.S., Russia, Britain and France maintain a special commission (and a guard force of 25 to 30 men each) to run Spandau; its only inmate is Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 81, serving a life sentence...
Died. Otto Strasser, 76, onetime intimate turned archenemy of Adolf Hitler; of a heart attack; in Munich. An early ally of the rising Führer, Strasser preached Nazism with a socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked...