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- August 13, 1995
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The Fall of Berlin, by Anthony Read and David Fisher (Da Capo,
$16.95). This history begins with the 1936 Olympic Games, when the
Nazi regime tried to whitewash its record, suspending its persecution
of Jews, purporting to discriminate against no one. Anti-Semitic
signs came down; anti-Semitic graffiti were obliterated. "The works
of writers like Heinrich Heine and Marcel Proust, whose books had
been burned three years earlier in front of the university, suddenly
reappeared in Berlin's bookshops." The most popular Nazi at the time
was Goering, whose girth conveyed the illusion that he was a merry
sort. The authors note that Hitler himself never lived in the capital
city: ...
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