Table of Contents
Publisher's Foreword ix
How to Use This Book xv
Book 1 The End That Never Was
1 When the Past Becomes the Present 3
2 The Journey Begins 7
3 "The Blood of Germans Is a Special Fluid" 12
4 Hot Ticket: Up the Führer's Mountain 29
5 A Day to Remember Hitler 38
Book 2 From My Case History Files
6 Reeducation: The Vaccine That Didn't Take 51
7 Bob and Jack Launch the Hitler Revival 58
8 U.S. Intelligence and the Clergy Help Nazi Leaders to Escape 68
9 Adenauer Was No Democrat 78
10 "Hitler Today" - The Historians' Angry Debate 84
Book 3 The Hitler Wave
11 Remembering Hider as a Success Story 95
12 How the Old Guard Keeps the Legend Alive 102
13 Multiple Lives: Old Nazis Masked and Unmasked 113
14 How the Nazi Dust Vanished Under the Rug 120
15 Cashing in on the "Hitler Wave" 124
16 The Holocaust as Soap Opera 135
17 What the Great Heimat Series Hushed Up 140
Book 4 Spreading Evil
18 Selling Denial 153
19 Why the "Hider Diaries" Were Believed 165
Book 5 Virus Carriers
20 Intellectualizing the New Right Wing 183
21 Diagnosis 194
22 Taking Hitler's Measure: The Biographers Speak 200
23 Why the Legend Lives: Contemporary Authorities Testify 208
24 The Nazi Propaganda Factory in Nebraska 216
25 The Hitler Souvenir Hunters 224
26 The Führer Still Lives Even Where He Almost Died 236
27 The Proof Is in the Polls 242
28 A Very Opinionated Pollster: The Two Faces of Elisabeth Noelle Neumann 249
29 The Haider Phenomenon 252
Book 6 Prognosis Positive: The Generation Factor
30 Sins of the Fathers 265
31 Dear Father, Damned Father 276
32 New Hope for Dachau 295
33 The "Nasty Girl" Triumphs 311
34 Publisher's Epilogue 316
Index 327