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SPANDAU: THE SECRET DIARIES by ALBERT SPEER 463 pages. Macmillan...
...strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office, a sop to his ego and construction-industry friends. They are buildings that will still be here when the world ends, inhuman enough for the J. Edgar Hoover Center in Washington to look like a Taos adobe beside them. With that, on a cold...
BOOKS. The fugitives' library of more than 150 volumes ranged from textbooks on explosives to Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer and Joy of Cooking...
...Speer's dogged perseverance is demonstrated in one passage of the Diaries. It describes the following meeting with Hess during their regular walks around the prison courtyard: "One more hour to the Bering Straits, Mr. Hess," said Speer cryptically. When Hess stared back uncomprehendingly, Speer explained: "Years ago, you told me to count the number of times I walk around the yard. We also talked about turning the daily exercises into a big excursion. Well, we have just completed our 78,514th round and thus-on our excursion-we should be able to see the Bering Straits...
From the Rubble. Speer, 70, now can do his walking in the yard of his home near Heidelberg, high above the Neckar River where he lives comfortably with his wife Margarete. He occasionally speaks to student groups about the experience of the Nazi years, but tries to avoid commenting on present-day politics. When asked whether he sees any application of the Nuremberg principles to the U.S. role in Viet Nam, he answers: "It is not for the judged to judge the judge." Even though Speer is the only ranking Nazi to emerge from the rubble of the Third Reich...