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Summary: Chilling in its banality - a surprising primary source
Comment: The most frightening thing about these interviews is that they expose how utterly banal the major players in Nazi Germany during World War II actually were. This series of interviews, conducted with defendants and witnesses during the Nuremberg Trials and recorded faithfully by Leon Goldensohn, make for compelling reading. But the difficulty is - you don't know quite why you so want to continue. Perhaps you are looking for a hint of the larger-than-life monster in each character? Perhaps you are hoping for remorse, acceptance of responsibility, truth? But you don't find it in these words. What you find is a picture of fear, inhumanity in many cases, weakness, bombast and a birds-eye view tainted by some very different personalities.
A valuable first hand account for any students of Twentieth Century History.
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