Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitlersinner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses, even by implication, and is unrelenting toward himself and his associates ... Speersfull-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Fhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magicSpeer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitlersmystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state.