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...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer...
Observed Germany's Professor Hans Rothfels: "May this publication contribute to that catharsis which after the catastrophe of the Third Reich is a requirement of our national self-respect...
...RISE AND FALL OF ADOLF HITLER (by William L. Shirer; Random House; $1.95) is not, as might be supposed, merely an instant, small-package version of Shirer's massive bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This book is more sharply and dramatically focused on the man rather than the world he terrorized. Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book...
Bureaucrat Eichmann had performed meticulously; anything outside routine offended him. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner quoted the defendant's wartime notes complaining of a Berlin Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...
NONFICTION / 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) / 3. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5) / 4. The New English Bible (3) / 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 6. The Making of the President 1960, White (9) 7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (6) 8. Firsthand Report, Adams 9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther 10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser...