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'It seems likely,' Robert Waite begins his book, 'that more will be written about Adolf Hitler than about anyone else in history with the exception of Jesus Christ.' This is a depressing prospect indeed. Why Hitler should continue to arouse such interest is a subject worthy of a major essay, for which The New York Review might well offer a prize. At the bottom of his first page Professor Waite prints this quotation:
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