Pro-Hitler sentiment in Germany and its implications are laid bare in this chilling history of the Nazi leader’s continuing legacy and influence in that country since Hitler’s death in 1945.
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On the day before his death, Hitler dictated a “testament” stating “the consolidation of the Nazi state represents the work of centuries to come.” Wyden wrote a chilling demonstration of the many expressions of that testament in our own era and in the years since Hitler’s time. He points a finger at a loose alliance of intellectuals, rank-and-file veterans of the Nazi era unable to let go, neo-Nazis who go so far as to annually celebrate Hitler’s birthday as a day of remembered glory, and various opinion makers who alone are respectable and harmless but who, in league with like-minded folk, could be dangerous if the German economy were to decline. Most chilling is Wyden’s discussion of hundreds of ex-Nazi officials whose documentation was “cleaned up” to allow them to serve various postwar German and Austrian governments. Despite a slight disjointedness (due to the fact that upon Wyden’s death, the book had to be fashioned and completed by his publishers), this book diagnoses a stubborn virus that still awaits a political Madame Curie to eradicate.
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