Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Triumph of the Will
By Neal Ascherson
Hitler
by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 844 pp., $15.00
Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality
by Werner Maser, translated by Peter Ross, by Betty Ross
Harper & Row, 433 pp., $12.50
Hitler's War Aims: The Establishment of the New Order
by Norman Rich
Norton, 548 pp., $14.95
The Evolution of Hitler's Germany: The Ideology, the Personality, the Moment
by Horst von Maltitz
McGraw-Hill, 479 pp., $12.95
Hitler Close-Up
by Heinrich Hoffman, by Henry Picker, compiled by Jochen von Lang, translated by Nicholas Fry
Macmillan, 223 pp., $9.95
Sieg Heil! An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler
by Stefan Lorant
Norton, 352 pp., $14.95
The Hitler Wave still rolls. Living rooms and movie houses resound to the Badenweiler March, to the ill-recorded shrieks of that accent from Austria's Appalachians. Month by month, new Chapters One address themselves to the subject of that impious, unknown somebody who rifled his way into the petticoats of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and dealt Hitler a father. The books are now clearly divided into at least two groups. One is Hitlerology which, while usually served up as 'debunking the myths which surround the figure of,' in fact strongly reinforces the myth that would make Hitler the only proper focus of attention in the Third Reich.
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