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...Robert Jackson. Throughout the trial Captain G. M. Gilbert, a U.S. psychologist, had access to the prisoners 24 hours a day. Nuremberg Diary, written from his daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground...
President Taylor thought the advantages were obvious: "We simply would be providing better football entertainment,* reaping more revenue from it, and through this enterprise expanding our intramural programs." Taylor announced that he would hire Elmo Roper to poll Louisville football fans to see what they thought of the idea...
...LAST DAYS OF HITLER (254 pp.)-H. R. Trevor-Roper-Mac/n/7/an...
...question of Hitler's death is still a topic that haunts historians. One of these two new books gives an apparently authentic description of several plots on Hitler's life; the other tries to piece together the details of his death. Both deserve considerable credence. Trevor-Roper's book, the heart of which has already appeared in LIFE, is the report of the official British historian. Gisevius, a German, was rescued from Germany by the OSS, which thus, to some extent, vouches...
Nibelung Nonsense. British Historian Trevor-Roper, whose book is the August co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, picks up the pieces where Gisevius drops them and reconstructs a Wagnerian drama of the suicide "love death" of Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...