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Fest, 47, an editor of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, grew up in Hitler's Germany, was drafted at 15 and captured by American troops at Remagen Bridge. Inevitably, his book covers little new ground. But he tells the Hitler story as no non-German could: dispassionately, but from the inside. When he blames the German people for Hitler, as he does, the charge rings true...
...Army command in West Germany, with almost 200,000 troops, is the largest non-German force left in the country. With East and West talking détente, the Army has little to do but keep house. Recently, however, it has been engaged in another activity: spying on civilians...
...fact, Munich lacks the intellectual electricity of those brilliant Berlin days. It is also much too innocent. Still, it is the place where most Germans prefer to live, and candid Münchner concede that it is the "other" Germans who »JJJ lend the city much of its style. Only one out of three Münchner is Bavarian-born, while about 15% of the city's population is non-German. It is this cultural blend that finally gives the city its lustig if somewhat spurious cosmopolitanism, an odd chemistry of the provincial and the sophisticated...
Sajer can write flowery asides to the non-German civilian: "Shall I ever deserve pardon? . . . Can I ever forget?" But his real peer group then-and now -is that absolutely disciplined iron man, the German soldier. As an Alsatian (he even wrote his memoir in French), he admires with the special fervor of the semi-outsider...
...national character and historical tradition shaped policy. In 1660 the English Crown granted general amnesty, except for the clergymen, to all but a few of the Cromwellian regicides, although republican soldiers (allowing for technological limitations) had behaved nearly as atrociously toward the Irish as Hitler's armies in non-German Europe. Neither Robert E. Lee nor any other Southern leader was charged with war crimes (although Jefferson Davis was confined in a fort for two years). After Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington, the real master of "liberated" France, was ordered to arrest Napoleonic Marshal Soult; the Duke asked...