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We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, \"one of the most important documents of the Hitler period\" but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.\u003cspan style=\"display: none;\"\u003eFriedrich Reck, afterword by Richard J. 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