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The lightweight reading choices of leading Nazis who loved to pose as intellectuals

A new book published this week in Germany exposes the 'literary-lite' reading tastes of Hitler and his cronies during the Third Reich.

While all pretended to be intellectuals consuming weighty tomes about race, culture and war, the hierarchy of Nazism were often the equivalent of today’s consumer of books with racy covers bought at airport shops.

Hermann Goering, the fat architect of the Blitz on London, liked detective novels and sci-fi books by Jules Verne....

Academic Christian Adam, who researched the reading habits of the elite of the regime for his book entitled ‘Reading under Hitler; Authors, Best-sellers and Readers in the Third Reich,’ said the need for escapist literature increased as the war went on.

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