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Hitler--Memoirs of a Confidant

Otto Wagener, Ashby Turner. Yale University Press, $18 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04039-5

In 1946, German economist Wagener, then a prisoner of war, wrote these reminiscences of Hitler, whom he advised for years on economic policy and political matters. PW stated that, ""World War II, the betrayal of Russia, the Holocaust, everything is here between and beneath the linesall of it instructive reading.'' (September)