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INSIDE THE THIRD REICH: MEMOIRS by Albert Speer. 596 pages. Macmillan...
Inside the Third Reich is likely to be the last, best first-person story of what took place at the power center as Hitler moved from political triumph to military disaster. While he was murdering Jews, ravaging Europe and destroying Germany, life at his court was a round of bickering intrigue, interminable monologues and atrocious boredom...
...hate, is the antonym of love, just as detachment -not indecision-is the opposite of will. Some settle for the airless refuge that offers an anodyne for the anguish of being -commitment to life. Those who seek safe harbor become what C. Wright Mills called "cheerful robots" and Wilhelm Reich "living machines." They have opted out of life; they have surrendered the ability...
...charges, he eventually raised the daily death toll to an average of 10,000. He oversaw the activities of the reclamation squad that yanked gold teeth from the mouths of corpses (319,000 lbs. of gold from dental fillings, wedding rings and other jewelry were shipped to the Third Reich from Treblinka). He also pioneered the building of a so-called "grill" made of railroad rails that served as a primitive crematorium...
...never been popular. The pioneers of research into sexuality?Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Marie Slopes, Alfred Kinsey?were initially vilified. Bill Masters openly acknowledges his debt to these precursors, particularly to Kinsey, whose studies, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study...