I've been reading Albert Speer's lengthy autobiography "Inside the Third Reich." One thing that makes the book tolerable [I'm not a big fan of books by crooks] is that Speer is no apologist--he may not have been a sycophant to the extent of some of the others in Hitler's entourage, but he freely admits that he allowed himself to be an idiot disposed by denial and wishful thinking. At least that's what I'm hearing.
But getting beyond that, I must say that the book is fascinating, and my jaw is sore from all the dropping at the extent of Hitler's megalomania. Um, really, people around the Fuehrer, did you not notice what was going on? Could you not see that it would end badly? Does it really take the hindsight of a time lord to do that?
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