...Stephen J. Whitfield Einstein in America: The Scientist’s Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima . By Sayen Jamie . New York : Crown , 1985 . Pp. ix , 340 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 BOOKS Einstein in America: The Scientist s Conscience...

...Theodore Ropp The Young Hitler I Knew . By Kubizek August . Translated from the German by Anderson E. V. . With an Introduction by Trevor-Roper H. R. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1955 . Pp. xv , 298 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956...

...Theodore Ropp 418 The South Atlantic Quarterly sure but that Japan should again concern itself more with swords and less with spades. E. Malcolm Carroll. Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences. Selected and Annotated by Felix Gilbert. New York: Oxford...

...Theodore Ropp The Death of Hitler’s Germany . By Blond Georges . Translated by Frenaye Frances . New York : Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. vii , 302 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 439 in the War of 1812 and for a few terms...

...Theodore Ropp Hitler’s Strategy . By Hinsley F. H. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1951 . Pp. xii , 254 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 605 originality of thought. He was vain, arrogant, egotistic, hypersensitive, petulant...

...Theodore Ropp 73 North: The Defeat of Hitler’s Navy . By Pope Dudley . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1958 . Pp. 288 . $4.95 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 3*9 The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Julian P. Boyd, Editor: Wil­ liam H. Gaines...

... Guderian and Reinhardt) by May 24 were within twenty miles of Dunkirk, when Hitler himself inter­ fered in the battle, ordering the entire left wing of Army Group A to stop dead in its tracks. Receiving this senseless order by telephone, von Kleist decided to ignore it and push on to Dunkirk...

... years later she became an accomplice before and after the fact in permitting Hitler s absorption of Austria and Czechoslovakia. At first sight, Prime Minister Chamberlain s actions with reference to the Czechs seem to be dia­ metrically opposed to her diplomatic and economic interests. Her age-old...

... in the 1930 s.1 The timing of his question was re­ lated to the controversy then still raging over A. J. P. Taylor s view of Hitler as a traditional, opportunistic German statesman rather than a long-term planner of aggression.2 That interpretation directly chal­ lenged a previously held consensus among...

... for power, his hatred of organized religion, his denial of moral values in national and international affairs, his doglike devotion to Hitler, his cleverness as a propagandist, and his self-praise and inflation. It is genuine Goebbels, revealing him in all his moral and intellectual indecency. The recovered...

... forces, broke through at Sedan in 1940, and came closest of all the German generals to Moscow in 1941. A theorist and a success­ 144 The South Atlantic Quarterly ful field commander, Guderian was undoubtedly one of the ablest of the younger (he was 51 in 1939) generals on Hitler s team. He was a year...

... seen it, between Soviet and Western policies in respect of analytical power, honesty, and courage. Taking as their master theme the notion that the Western Powers betrayed the Czechs in the hope of channeling Hitler s murderous energies into a war of destruction, or at least mutual annihilation...

... Hitler s only concern was to choose the most suitable moment to order his troops into the Rhine­ land. How did he break out of the ring? These documents show that, in the main, the ring was broken for him. There was only one major German initiative the Anglo-German Naval Accord. For the rest, Hitler...

... is supported are impressive, and the style is persuasive. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FLOYD STOVALL Unheard Witness. By Ernst Hanfstangl. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1957. Pp. 317. $4.95. In Adolph Hitler s fantastic career, the years of political struggle prior to his achievement of power remain...

... is generally understood. In Ger­ many the battle of the books over the responsibility for the First World War intensified the general sense of injustice and gave Hitler an effective propaganda weapon. In the democracies it fostered a feeling of guilt and so helped to paralyze resistance to Fascist aggression...

.... On the cover each month appeared glorified sketches of Hitler, Goebbels, or Ribbentrop; pastoral scenes of farmers and cows above such captions as Peace reigns in the Reich ; photos of Herr Hitler s famous chalet at Berchtesgaden ; cheering crowds waving swastika flags as German troops entered Austria...

... and the invasion of Russia. It was a time when all things were still possible. Hitler stood astride a broken continent, already victor over nine countries, with an army of 200 divisions and as much territory subject to his will as ever trembled at Napoleon s decree. Only the English defied his New Order. To Hitler...

... for a satisfactory study of Nassau Senior. Charles Richard Sanders. HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY Der Fuehrer. By Konrad Heiden. Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944. Pp. vi, 788. $3.00. Konrad Heiden has made a name for himself as the author of two books on Nazism, one a history of the movement first published in 1933...

... of irrational political myths provided the setting for modern totalitarianism. More specifically, did Salomon bring people to support Hitler either by advocating the Nazi ideology or by under­ mining the forces that might have opposed the Hitler movement? Or is he, perhaps, a misunderstood conservative, whose...

..., there have emerged five figures who may be prop­ erly termed fascist, in the larger sense of that much abused word. These five are Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Na- 350 The South Atlantic Quarterly poleon Bonaparte, and Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the greater...