Nazi With A Human Face?

The memoirs of Albert Speer have received favorable, even enthusiastic notices in the English and American press, and the first question to ask is why, after 25 years, anyone still cares to read about the in-fighting among Hitler’s top lieutenants, or about his megalomanic building plans, or about the effects of allied bombing on German industrial output. There probably are people of Speer’s and my generation who wallow in reliving again the experience that took the best years of ...