Most West Germans have dropped their recollections of Hitler's Reich down a convenient memory hole and are disinclined to resurrect them. To make sure that they are nonetheless nudged from time to time is the task of a small but diligent scholarly organization with the innocuous name Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), housed in a quiet, three-story house in Munich, the city where Hitler got his start.
Operating since 1947 on a modest budget of less than $100,000 of public funds yearly, the institute's staff of 35 specialists, headed by scholarly, bespectacled Historian Helmut Krausnick, 54, has...
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