Books: Rogues' Gallery

CAESARS IN GOOSESTEP — William D.

Bayles — Harper ($3).

William D. (for David) Bayles went to Germany in 1932. He taught English for two years at the University of Munich, then free-lanced. In a little Munich cafe he used to see a "small, nervous, threadbare man with bad teeth, greasy, dandruffy hair, a colorless wisp of a mustache, and pale blue eyes which, like his hands, were never quiet." It was Adolf Hitler.

Later in Berlin, Bayles (as correspondent for TIME Inc.) had a closer look at the little man. Bayles also paid close attention to the littler men who were Hitler's chief...

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