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DIARY OF A MAN IN DESPAIR by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. 219 pages. Macmillan...
...fall of 1932, Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen, monarchist, amateur philosopher and member of Bavaria'-landed gentry, was dining with a friend at a Munich restaurant. Like many other Germans during those disorderly times, he carried a revolver to protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering...
...Reck must have shown an amusing side to the Nazis. He was an old-school Wilhelmist and a South German intellectual whose broad range of ideas included a distaste for modern mass man that could be traced through his friend Oswald Spengler and back to such Slavophiles as Dostoevsky and Danilevsky. Because of Reek's all-German background and community prestige, the Nazis appear to have tolerated a good deal of unsympathetic behavior from him. He invariably used the old greeting "God be praised" instead of "Heil Hitler." In 1940 he huffed out of a packed Berlin movie house...
...this unequivocal criticism in order? Whetrer the small group of guys lay behind the leaflet that called the riot and colored it with their own reck-lessness, elitism and male chauvinism is a question that can be left aside. What the band of surely no more than ten did that night was wrong and, to use a good descriptive word, was plainly adventurist for among others, the following reason...
Here I am, solemnly proposing a re form to our country. If then, out of reck lessness, the French people opposed it, what kind of man would I be if with out delay I did not draw the consequences of such a deep fissure...