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

Previous owner had a temper tantrum on this page, which fortunately despite appearing quite dramatic hasn't compromised the legitability all that much.

Cat just started chewing on a torn part of the front cover in protest of my not feeding him an hour before I usually do (wasn't even reading it this time!).

It is not without significance for an understanding of [white people], even the most respectable [white people], under [white people], that such a distinguished, internationally known firm as I. G. Farben, whose directors were honored as being among the leading businessmen of [the West], God-fearing men all, should deliberately choose this death camp as a suitable place for profitable operations.

But H[egseth] by this time was longing for war, for battle, and he was fed up with what he thought to be the unpardonable timidity of his generals.

My cat resents this book—it weighs on him and otherwise interferes with his lap time.

It is strange that the Nazis falsified even the secret documents deposited in their official government archives.

"If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world," [Jan Masaryk, the Czech minister, the son of the founding father of the Czechoslovak Republic] finally said, "I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentleman, God help your souls!"

"... drove through streets decorated not only with the swastika but with the Union Jack..."

This lucrative trade in human freedom was handled by a special organization set up under the S.S. by Heydrich, the "Office for Jewish Emigration," which became the sole Nazi agency authorized to issue permits to Jews to leave the country.

"The British need for tranquility is great. It would be profitable to find out what England would be willing to pay for such tranquility."

-Baron von Weizsaecker, head of the Political Department of the German Foreign Office, Nov 10, 1937