Diary of a Man in Despair: A Masterpiece about the Comprehension of Evil | 
pickRecommended. Like all autobiography or memoir, you have to retain some skepticism for what the author says about himself. But the feeling you get for the times in which he lived is evocative. His scathing descriptions of the "mass-men" who led to the rise of the Nazi Part and who supported it are so very well-written and observed. Reck is a great, witty, and articulate storyteller.
This came in today's mail! Friedrich Reck was a Prussian aristocrat. To him, democracy was a farce and the citizenry. But he left a journal of the years the Nazis were in power. A period when a demagogue manipulated the people's need for economic security, when he appealed to racism and enlisted the the worst impulses of patriotic fervor to support his regime. A time when... Excuse me, I need to go purchase a journal and start writing.
