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JUST FINISHED A RELATIVELY NEW BOOK CALLED"'IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEAST" BY Erick Larson.  If you have forgotten your history of the Hitler takeover of GERMANY, THIS WILL BRING IT TO MIND .   ITS A TRUE STORY, IN THAT THE EVENTS ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE AND USED DIARIES AND MEMOS FROM THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AND HIS WIFE AT THE TIME, TO VERIFY THOSE EVENTS. 

IT ENABLES US TO ENVISION HITLER'S DEADLY TAKOVER AS HE SHOVES ASIDE PRISIDENT HINDENBURG, KILLING THOSE WHO GOT IN HIS WAY, AND LULLING THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY INTO THINKING THE NATION WAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNITED AND STRONG.  YOUTH WERE ORGNIZED, HITLER'S RIGHT HAND MAN,GOERING AND HITLER HIMSELF DID NOT HESITATE TO KILL THOSE WHO RESISTED .  

THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IS PUT IN A BAD POSITION, TRYING TO PUT  A PLEASANT LIGHT ON THE TREATMENT OF JEWS, THE UNIFORMED SS IN THE STREET, MISTREATMENT OF CIVILIANS AND THE BUILDUP OF HITLER AS THE LEADER. ALL THE WHILE DEPLORING IN HIS MIND WHAT IS HAPPENING.   

THE BOOK IS SET IN THE 1930'S AND ENDS WITH GERMANY GOING TO WAR IN 1939.

ITS A GOOD REFRESHER OF HISTORY.