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Nuremberg: The Reckoning, by William F. Buckley Jr. (Harcourt, 366 pp., $25)
They were supposed to throw themselves on the pyre. That, the Roman historian Tacitus said, was ever the German way: Better to perish in the conflagration than outlive the tribe's defeat. In the last days of the war, the German leader, holed up in his bunker, plotted the fireworks in which the Reich was to be consumed. "If the war is to be lost," Hitler told Albert Speer in March 1945, "the nation will also perish." There was "no need to consider the basis even of a most primitive [national] existence any longer." On the contrary, Hitler said, "it is better to destroy even that, and to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Genocide on Trial.('Nuremberg: The Reckoning')