A Democratic Politician

ing in the early 1960's, Schramm exposedrnthe fallacy—and the danger—of arnthen-common tendency to trivializernHitler. Ernst Deuerlein's Hitler: A PoliticalrnBiography (1969), which Lukacsrncalls "the best short hiider biography," isrnalso well-written. Deuerlein pondered arnkey problem —"how Hitler had beenrnpossible"—that also preoccupied SebastianrnHaffner, who asserted the . . .