Luke’s Reviews > The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany > Status Update

Hindenburg made a short speech about the necessity for full co-operation in the interests of the nation, and we were then sworn in. The Hitler cabinet had been formed.

—Franz von Papen, January 30, 1933

"The Reich Youth Leader was Baldur von Schirach, a romantically minded young man and an energetic organizer, whose mother was an American and whose great-grandfather, a Union officer, had lost a leg at Bull Run; he told his American jailers at Nuremburg that he had become an anti-Semite at the age of seventeen after reading a book called Eternal Jew, by Henry Ford." Even Shirer can't safely objectify this one.

Sure hope Shirer doesn't keep up this running 'unemployed behavior' ad hominem commentary throughout the entire book, his argument's awfully emotional as is.