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We're reading today from the rise and fall of the third Reich by William Scherer here on the Tom Harbin University Book Club.

This is from the foreword by Scherer.

He writes, though I lived and worked in the Third Reich during the first half of its brief life, watching at first hand,

Adolf Hitler consolidate his power as dictator of a great but baffling

nation and then lead it off to war and conquest

this personal experience would not have led me to attempt to write this book had

there not occurred at the end of world war two

and event unique in history

this was the capture of most of the confidential archives of the German government

and all its branches, including those of the foreign office, the Army and Navy, the National Socialist

Party, and Heinrich Himmler's Secret Police. Never before, I believe, has such a vast treasure

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