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...Need You Any More." Ludwig's effort falls a little short because of the difficulty of his endeavor. Consistently amusing without being flip or irrelevant, he introduces an extremely improbable character who worships and lives by the words of an extremely Improbable pair of writers, Thoreau and Wilhelm Reich. But to make music of proper names requires a talent approximating Joyce's, and while Ludwig has done well enough indeed, the strictures of conventional sentence give much of his prose an unintentionally flat sound...
...Nevertheless, the world in 1961 has apparently gained what might be called an anesthetic distance from the monstrous paperhanger, and has suddenly decided to re-examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been steadily topping the bestseller list. Now a Swedish Jew named Erwin Leiser has compiled from captured German film-newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films, secret police footage-this calm, fair, objective and appalling picture history of Hitlerism. Exhibited in Germany, Mein Kampf shocked and humbled its audiences...
...return, he wanted the Allies to supply 10,000 winterized trucks, which he promised would be used only against the Russians. Nothing came of the plan, and Hungary's Jews were shipped to the gas chambers. With the Reich visibly collapsing. Heinrich Himmler thought he might save himself by using the remaining Jews as hostages. He ordered the killing stopped. For once. Eichmann refused to obey an order. He sent word to Commandant Hoess: "No one will walk out of Auschwitz. There is only one way they will leave-through the smokestacks...
...Stops. Long before the press corps actually got in to the courtroom to cover the trial, the Eichmann case was heralded, exploited, rehashed and explored with exhaustive thoroughness. In the U.S., papers that did not serialize Eichmann's life or revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them...
NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer...