Between archeology and fiction. Everything that is still being investigated today about Nazism, continues to derive in rivers of ink. Perhaps it is to understand the incomprehensible, or to heal deep, organic wounds. The point is that such a proliferation of literary works of fiction or non-fiction means that the world is still traumatized by the innermost part of Nazism, the ins and outs of an extermination machine.
One of the great ideologues, the one known as the architect of the Holocaust: Alfred Rosenberg, wrote his diary. And not long ago this sinister blog became public. With such starting material, this book Diary of the devil, it ends up breaking it all down. A metaliterary intention to try to obtain the ultimate truth that only this man's soul could harbor.
Undoubtedly, the exterminating work had to find internal supporters and detractors, the latter silenced with the relevant washing of conscience or with their direct annihilation. Alfred Rosenberg took good note of these and many more. But above all, his diary showed hatred of Jews, Marxists, Communist Russians and any others who were supposed to follow doctrines contrary to the Third Reich.
Beyond the newspaper itself, with the macabre and profound ideas of this beast of Nazism, this work narrates the adventures that its authors had to carry out in order to make the literality of the document public. The original diary, found in May 1945 in Banz Castle, and used in the Nuremberg trials, was secretly passed from hand to hand until the 90s, when Robert K. Wittman found it in New York, in the care of a lawyer. Jewish.
Undoubtedly an interesting work that offers new lights on the ability of the human soul to become a demonic spirit, capable of hating and putting its hatred before everything else.
You can buy the book Diary of the devil, from authors David Kinney and Robert K. Wittman, here: