GESTAPO: INSTRUMENT OF TYRANNY (275 pp.) Edward Crankshaw Viking ($3.75).
The great function of the Nürnberg trials was not the often disputed function of pinning the guilt for World War II on a few top Nazis. A decade removed from those victorious and, perhaps, vindictive days, it becomes increasingly clear that the most important function of Nürnberg was the amassing of a vast amount of firsthand evidence on exactly what activated the Third Reich. It was Hitler's idea that the whole Nazi organization would, like millions of its victims, dis, appear...
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