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...against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because I'm obsessed with curiosity. I am letting the history of Adam Lorenz tell me just how I would have behaved myself in the Third Reich...
...White feels he has probed to the heart of the matter by interviewing a score or so of "typical" Germans. Few people in the Third Reich, it seems, were aware of Nazi atrocities. Those who were aware or who were active in perpetrating them, were under the influence of "hysterical mysticism," and now want only to forget the things they did or knew. A very large percentage of the Germans, perhaps even a majority "never did like the son of a bitch, and always said he'd get us into a war," and real Nazis were so scarce that...
...credentials, rides a camel, eventually walks straight into Hitler's den. "Will you tell me where you have been for the past two years, Herr Budd?" barks the Fiihrer. Lanny offers so neat an explanation that Hitler, in return, offers him an autographed pass to tour the Reich as he will. Lanny makes his tour, then flies back home to report to F.D.R. and to spend a few days with the third Mrs. Budd, a lady who falls into trances and gets spirit messages from the late Otto H. Kahn...
...quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
...highways, talking and practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...