Volume 30, Number 12 · July 21, 1983

Hitler Without His Diaries

By Gordon A. Craig
Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913
by J. Sydney Jones

Stein and Day, 350 pp., $19.95

The Nazi Machtergreifung
edited by Peter D. Stachura

Allen and Unwin, 191 pp., $19.50

The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor
by David Irving

Macmillan, 310 pp., $16.95

Hitler und die Endlösung: "Es ist des Führers Wunsch" of California Press next spring.
by Gerald Fleming

Limes Verlag (Munich), 219 pp., DM28

In 1976, the late Jean Améry, who had fought in the Resistance against Hitler and suffered imprisonment in a concentration camp, wrote gloomily that time was on the side of his former enemies and that sooner or later a false historical objectivity would discover that the Pétains and Lavals of the 1930s had been excellent fellows after all, and that even Adolf Hitler should not be denied his place in the Pantheon.



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