Volume 32, Number 17 · November 7, 1985
'Guardian of the Grail'
By Alan Bullock
Hitler—Memoirs of a Confidant
edited by Henry Ashby Turner Jr., translated by Ruth Hein
Yale University Press, 333 pp., $29.95
For more than fifteen years Henry Ashby Turner, of Yale, has devoted his energies to collecting the evidence to answer the question, what part did big business play in Hitler's rise to power? His conclusions are certain to arouse controversy. Few earlier historians of the Third Reich, including myself, escape censure; but it is those for whom the connection between capitalism and Nazism is still an article of faith who will protest most loudly. This is unlikely to perturb Professor Turner who, in the final pages of German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,[1] summarizes the indictment his critics are likely to bring against him and restates his confidence in the historical method he has followed. But controversy should not be allowed to obscure the value of the most impressive and original contribution to the study of Nazism in years, matched only by Richard Hamilton's Who Voted for Hitler?
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