Volume 29, Number 8 · May 13, 1982
Pillars of the Third Reich
By Norman Stone
Infiltration
by Albert Speer, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Macmillan, 384 pp., $15.95
Reinhard Heydrich: A Biography
by Günther Deschner, translated by Sandra Bance, by Brenda Woods, by David Ball
Stein and Day, 351 pp., $18.95
The Hitler State: The Foundation and Development of the Internal Structure of the Third Reich
by Martin Broszat, translated by John W. Hiden
Longman, 378 pp., $14.50 (paper)
The Third Reich and the Christian Churches
by Peter Matheson
Eerdmans, 103 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler
by Pierre Galante, translated by Mark Howsen, by Cary Ryan
Harper and Row, 336 pp., $13.50
The Wehrmacht and German Rearmament
by Wilhelm Deist
University of Toronto Press, 151 pp., $30.00
When Albert Speer died last September in London, his obituarists were, generally, kind. True, he had been Hitler's friend, favorite architect, and arms minister. But after 1945 he had been consistently and dignifiedly repentant. He served his two decades' imprisonment after Nuremberg with great fortitude. His memoirs of the Hitler era, Inside the Third Reich, and his Spandau Diaries, which recorded how he survived twenty years' imprisonment, have achieved classic status. Speer was also very anxious to help journalists and historians. He was always being interviewed, often at great inconvenience to himself.
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