Volume 27, Number 12 · July 17, 1980
The Hitler Addiction
By Alan Bullock
Hitler
by Norman Stone
Little, Brown, 195 pp., $12.50
The Meaning of Hitler
by Sebastian Haffner, translated by Ewald Osers
Macmillan, 165 pp., $7.95
The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler
by Leonard L. Heston, by Renate Heston
Stein and Day, 184 pp., $12.95
Last October I spent an afternoon in Berlin talking to the last man left alive who knew Hitler well enough to say, 'If Adolf Hitler had been capable of friendship, I suppose I should have been his best friend.' To the handful of people who were present this conversation with Albert Speer brought back so vividly what Hitler meant to our generation, the blight he laid on so many millions of lives, that at the end we were as emotionally exhausted as if we had been listening to Hitler himself re-enacting one of his speeches.
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