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Subject: Re: Mein Kampf Author: JeffF [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:17:06 07/10/01 Tue In reply to: Forest 's message, "Mein Kampf" on 07:55:31 07/10/01 Tue The really scary thing are some of the pro-Nazi sites that still exist on the Net, especially the semi-intellectual ones where you can cloak your prejudices in fancy talk. A lot of holocaust denial still going on, coupled with a blaming the victim. As far as books, Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich" gives you a glimpse from the point of view of one of the major accomplices of Hitler. Speer was not anti-semitic as much as he was an opportunist. He has left us the best account from an insider of what Hitler and his cronies were like. Also, "Between Hitler and Mussolini" gives the whole story of that relationship from it's fragile beginnings to the semi friendship to Mussolini's betrayal of France to his attempt to save Jews to his hatred of Hitler. It's fascinating reading. Above all, as always, I have to recommend "The Rescuers" - the book about the people from all countries who saved people at their own great peril. We have to remember that as dark as those days were, every country also had a number of ordinary people who were quite heroic. As for Mein Kampf, even many of the people who did read it, didn't think he actually meant it. It was dismissed alternately as political propoganda or just the ravings of a lunatic who could never be elected anyway. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: other books Author: Forest [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:21:59 07/10/01 Tue Ok I've written those titles down. Another one I was told about was "Wine and War" or "war and Wine" (cant remember) that one is about the Nazi occupation of france. Have you read the Shirer book? If not Jeff, you really should read it. I'm bogged down right around the invasion of Poland and have picked up McNamara's book on Viet Nam, for a change of pace!

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: other books Author: JeffF [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:09:01 07/10/01 Tue I read Shirer's book back in the seventies, so it's been a while, but some of it still sticks with me in detail. There is also some very good realistic fiction. If you want a very good, fair look at the war, try, Marge Piercy's novel, "Gone to Soldiers." It's one of the best novels I've ever read(Piercy's book, "The Longings of Women" is also very good, but nothing to do with WWII).