Volume 20, Number 11 · June 28, 1973
Hitler à la Mode
By Alan Bullock
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
by Robert Payne
Praeger, 623 pp., $12.95
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
by Gerhard Boldt
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 225 pp., $6.95
Codeword Barbarossa
by Barton Whaley
MIT, 375 pp., $10.00
The War Hitler Won: The Fall of Poland, September, 1939
by Nicholas Bethell
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 472 pp., $10.00
Robert Payne's is one of several studies of Hitler that have recently appeared or been announced. This fact, together with the launching of a new film about Hitler's end and all the ballyhoo that accompanies such an event, has led the press first to discover a 'sudden revival' of interest in Hitler and then to ask why this should be so. I doubt if there is such a revival, outside newspaper and publishers' offices, but if there is, then (like the insatiable demand for books about the Second World War) it is a matter on which a social psychologist would give a better opinion than a historian.
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