Books: The Little Loudspeaker

JOSEPH GOEBBELS (367 pp.)—Curt Riess—Doubleday ($3.95).

One June night in 1922, an embittered little German provincial limped into Munich's largest hall to listen to a political speech. What he heard made him go "alternately hot and cold ... I was beside myself. I was shouting hurrah! . . . The man up there looked at me for one moment. His blue eyes met my glance like a flame. This was a command! At that moment I was reborn." .When it was all over, the oratory-drunk convert limped to a table and filled out a form. Joseph Goebbels had become Nazi Party member...

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