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Title: Dated, Boring, Unintentionally Funny.
Review: I picked this up used after the German film "Downfall" reawakened a long-dormant fascination with the freakshow that was National Socialist Germany. I was disappointed. Shirer's prose is inelegant and heavy-handed. After about 300 pages, I gave up. But not before reaching this amusing nugget: "Many of the [S.A.'s] top leaders, beginning with its chief, [Ernst] Roehm, were notorious homosexual perverts. Lietenant Edmund Heines, who led the Munich S.A., was not only a homosexual but a covicted muderer. These two and dozens of others quarreled and fueded as only men of unnatural sexual inclinations, with their peculiar jealousies, can." Good luck getting something like that published in 2005.
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