Volume 47, Number 17 · November 2, 2000

Fate & the Führer

By Gordon A. Craig
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis
by Ian Kershaw

Norton, 1,168 pp., $35.00

The Third Reich: A New History
by Michael Burleigh

Hill and Wang, 992 pp., $40.00

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945
by Pierre Ayçoberry, Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd

The New Press, 380 pp., $15.95 (paper)

In 1950, appalled by the flood of books and articles about National Socialism that was pouring from the printing presses, a German journalist wrote, 'He has played a trick on us. This Hitler, I think he'll remain with us until the end of our lives.'



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