Volume 24, Number 9 · May 26, 1977

The Schicklgruber Story

By Alan Bullock
Hitler's War
by David Irving

Viking, 926 pp., $17.50

Adolf Hitler
by John Toland

Doubleday, 1,035 pp., $14.95

Hitler Among the Germans
by Rudolph Binion

Elsevier, 207 pp., $12.00

The Psychopathic God, Adolf Hitler
by Robert G.L. Waite

Basic Books, 482 pp., $13.50

'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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