Volume 12, Number 6 · March 27, 1969
In Search of Anti-Nazis
By Geoffrey Barraclough
Anatomy of the SS State
by Helmut Krausnick, by Hans Buchheim, by Martin Broszat, by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, with an Introduction by Elizabeth Wiskemann
Walker, 614 pp., $10.00
The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
by William Manchester
Little, Brown, 976 pp., $12.50
The German Atomic Bomb
by David Irving
Simon & Schuster, 329 pp., $6.95
The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45
by J.S. Conway
Basic Books, 474 pp., $10.00
The Conspiracy Against Hitler in the Twilight War
by Harold C. Deutsch
University of Minnesota, 394 pp., $8.95
The controversy about the relations between Hitler and Germany, between National Socialism and the German people, between the Nazi present and the German past, has gone on ceaselessly since 1945. Was National Socialism implicit in German history, the culmination of völkisch trends which reached back to Arndt and Jahn and Schlegel, and of political trends which began at latest with Frederick the Great? Or was it—as the doyen of German postwar historians, Gerhard Ritter, once argued—an aberration, an Irrweg, or even (incredible and unforgivable as Ritter's argument may seem) an infection which reached Germany from the West, at worst the German expression of a more general malaise which had afflicted the whole of European society since the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
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