Volume 2, Number 4 · April 2, 1964
Accounting for Hitler
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Reichstag Fire
by Fritz Tobias
Putnam, 352 pp., $5.59
Big Business in the Third Reich
by Arthur Schweitzler
Indiana, 640 pp., $7.50
The history of Hitler's Germany is still full of problems. In spite of all that has been written, we still find Hitler's career mysterious, almost incredible. How was it that such a man rose to such power and led a whole nation, willingly, through such crime, to such disaster? The historians recount and explain, but the mystery remains, to be solved, if at all, at a deeper level. Meanwhile new studies continue to alter old interpretations. Here are two books which, in very different ways, seriously modify accepted views. The first challenges an old explanation, or myth; the second penetrates below the surface of politics to the inner structure of Nazi power.
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