another interesting WW II book

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Susan Gilbert wrote:

> michael, isn't this exciting, finding out 
> about some asshole jerk murderer's
> unrequited erotic feelings.

a quote from the Fest book on Speer i just got
out of the library. Speer's father was introduced
to Hitler at the theater, he turned pale and 
trembled. Fest trying to explain this says

"On a visit to Berlin in the mid-thirties, he
(Speer's father) attended a theater premiere 
with his son and Hitler invited him to his box 
during the intermission. No sooner had he been 
presented than he was overcome by a violent 
trembling. He turned pale and is if paralysed he 
let the torrent of words beat down on him. Speer 
later suspected that his father had sensed the 
frightening aura of otherness that Hitler radiated. 
It was, as the conservative historian Otto Hintz 
described the dictator, like suddenly finding 
oneself in the presence of a person with 
something 'utterly alien' about them, 
'something of an otherwise extinct primordial 
race..."