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of the Elbe: Mecklenburg, Silesia, Pomerania, and East
Prussia. They were part of a dynasty whose training began
at the age of seven. From then on their lives were governed
by a pattern that had no elasticity; they usually looked
alike, thought alike, conducted themselves alike. They
were not well read outside their profession. Such kindred
arts of war as economics and rehabilitation held no interest
for them. Their entire existence was absorbed by maps,
strategy, and maneuver. The German generals wanted to be
important, but they did not want to be known: theirs was a
behind-the-scenes role, by a cardinal rule of the caste.
In time the generals decided Hitler was their man and
helped maneuver him into power. Then their troubles
began, as Hitler had his own ideas and wasn't easily
controlled. He was their antithesis so they despised him,
but with strikingly few exceptions he bested them at every
turn. The "how" is Riess's theme.
The day of the generals is over no matter which side
wins ultimately. The generals know it but can do nothing
about it: Hitler is too far on top and too all-cognizant of
things going on about him.
The Self-Betrayed reads quickly and is important
background for all the recent German campaigns. The
portraits of the individuals referred to are beautifully
clear, adding up to a picture that gives one a mural, as it
were, to which to add as the German army moves across
the scene.
J. M. C.
NAZIS IN THE WOODPILE. By Egon Glesinger. 244
pages; appendix; endpaper map. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, 1942. $2.00.
The Nazis have taken to the woods, literally, in their
prosecution of the war.
In Nazis in the Woodpile Dr. Glesinger gives an
astonishing account of Hitler's furtive pre-war plans to
enlist the European forests on the side of the Reich. He
traces the development in sharp clear outlines through its
international complexities to its large scale wartime
operation, and thereby sheds light on the mystery of
apparently inexhaustible German resources.
Through research extending back over pre-war years the
Nazis have discovered in wood a magic raw material
source of sugar, motor fuel and lubricants, cattle fodder,
textiles, structural materials, and chemical by-products.
Wood is an essential factor of the "Ersatz Industries," and
as the author says, "its manifold uses tend to prove the
Nazi belief that one can make almost everything from
anything."
The schemes of the Nazi leaders to acquire a controlling
grip on the world's wood and to turn it to account in the
larger schemes to subject the world stand out with cold
convincing reality on the pages of this authoritative book.
In the prefatory words of Douglas Miller, the story of Nazis
in the Woodpile "is as full of thrills and intrigue as an oldtime
international spy tale."
F. E. J.