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...this book help me to be clearer in spirit, simpler in thought, greater in love." Unlikely as it may seem, so begin the voluminous diaries of one of modern history's most diabolical figures: Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich. Despite these noble intentions, the entry soon reveals the ugly disposition of the man who became a fanatical member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle. Jews, fumed the 26-year-old Goebbels, "suck the blood from our veins. ((They are)) scoundrels, traitors . . . vampires...
Ever since the Hitler diary scandal of 1983, scholars have been leery of late-surfacing relics from the Third Reich. But academicians seem to agree that these diaries are authentic. Goebbels is known to have kept meticulous journals, and the content jibes with existing historical records. Forensic tests have turned up no evidence of fraud. Still, some details are unexpected. In an entry from 1929, Goebbels frets that "Hitler is too soft, he doesn't work enough," and is concerned that Germany's future leader may do "too much womanizing." Another entry suggests that the burning of the Reichstag...
...less fascinating than the diaries themselves were Goebbels' efforts to protect them. As the British bombed German cities, he had 20 clothbound notebooks placed in a bank vault. Later he had the entire inventory put on microfiche. In the final days of the Third Reich he arranged for several volumes to be brought to his underground bunker, determined even then to preserve his version of history...
Before his incarceration in Spandau, Hess spent 21 months in a Nuremberg prison, where he reportedly wrote prodigiously about the Nazis and the war. He believed the Third Reich to be a "legitimate" aspiration of the German people and was convinced that he would be drafted to play a leading role someday in a "Fourth Reich." Even after his transfer to Spandau in 1947, Hess's loyalty to Hitler endured. He initially goose-stepped along the prison corridors, snapping the Nazi salute...
...West Berlin that includes Spandau, plans to build a supermarket and an entertainment center on the site. The new facilities will cater to the 4,000 British service members and their families whose presence in West Berlin remains one of the legacies of Hitler's thousand-year Third Reich...