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Bad Seed; Confessions from Hitler's help unleash an unexpected legacy.
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The Washington Post
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November 9, 2003| Author:
Reviewed by Andrew Nagorski
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SIEGFRIED
By Harry Mulisch. Viking. 180 pp. $22.95.
An elderly Austrian couple finally finds the moment to unloose the
secret they have lived with for more than half a century. As loyal
Nazis, they had been selected to work as domestic servants for Hitler
at his retreat in the Bavarian Alps in 1936, and they stayed there
through World War II. During that time they served Hitler and his
mistress, Eva Braun, and were assigned a special role to cover up the
birth of the notorious co...
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