Volume 15, Number 12 · January 7, 1971

Hitler's Master Builder

By Geoffrey Barraclough
Inside the Third Reich
by Albert Speer

Macmillan, 596 pp., $12.50

Diary of a Man in Despair
by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen

Macmillan, 219 pp., $6.95

Students Against Tyranny
by Inge Scholl

Wesleyan, 160 pp., $5.00

The Face of the Third Reich
by Joachim C. Fest

Pantheon, 402 pp., $10.00

Deutschlands Rüstung im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Hitlers Konferenzen mit Albert Speer
edited by Willi A. Boelcke

Frankfurt: Athenaion Verlag, 495 pp.

Long before Albert Speer was carried off into captivity on May 23, 1945, the Speer legend had begun to take shape. War is the young man's opportunity, and the career of this particular young man, Minister of Munitions and Armaments in the Thousand Year Reich at the age of thirty-six, exercised a peculiar fascination over friend and foe alike.



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