Volume 22, Number 5 · April 3, 1975
Farewell to Hitler
By Geoffrey Barraclough
Hitler: The Führer and the People June.)
by J. P. Stern
Fontana (London), 256 pp., 80 pence (to be published by the University of California Press in
Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945
introduced and edited by Jeremy Noakes, by Geoffrey Pridham
Viking, 704 pp., $20.00
Thirty years ago, at the beginning of 1945, Hitler's Thousand Year Reich was coming to an end. A few weeks later, on April 30—after destroying his dog Blondi (probably the only living creature for which he felt genuine affection) and marrying his mistress, Eva Braun—Hitler committed suicide. The world was well rid of him. And yet, thirty years later, Hitler continues to fascinate—and mystify.
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