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I did not have the heart to tell him that I thought he had been proved soundly mistaken on one of his
predictions for the United States. With the nuclear stalemate and the end of the war-America having used
its atomic bombs in the Orient, and riveting the worldтАЩs attention in the same fashion as we-the isolationist
forces in that country had had a resurgence. In a few years they had moved the country back to the
foreign policy it held before the Spanish-American War. Hitler had predicted grim consequences for that
countryтАЩs economy. The reverse unobligingly came true. This was in part because the new isolationists
didnтАЩt believe in economic isolation by any means; they freed American corporations to protect their own
interests.
The latest reports I had seen demonstrated that the American Republic was thriving, even as our
economy was badly suffering from numerous entanglements that go hand-in-gauntlet with an imperial
foreign policy. We had quite simply overextended ourselves. New Berlin, after all, was modeled on the
old Rome . . . and like the Roman Empire we were having trouble financing the operation and keeping
the population amused. There are times I miss our old slogan: Gold or Blood?

IтАЩm as dedicated a National Socialist as ever, but I must admit that America does not have our problems.
What it has is a lot of goods, a willingness to do business in gold (our stockpile of which increased
markedly after the war), and paper guarantees that we would not interfere in their hemisphere. We keep
our part of the bargain fairly well: all adults understand that Latin America is fair game.

There is, of course, no censorship for the upper strata of Nazi Germany. The friends and families of high
Reich officialdom can openly read or see anything they want. I still have trouble with this modification in
our policy. At least I keep cherished memories of 1933, when I personally gave the order to burn the
books at the Franz Joseph Platz outside Berlin University. I have never enjoyed myself more than in the
period when I perfected an acid rhetoric as editor ofDer Angriff , which more often than not inspired the
destruction of writings inimical to our point of view. It was a pleasure putting troublesome editors in the
camps. Those days seem far away now. Many enjoyAll Quiet on the Western Front !

Hitler would not have minded a hearty exchange on the subject of censorship. He likes any topic that
relates at some point to the arts. He would have certainly preferred such a discussion to arguing about
capitalist policy in America. I didnтАЩt pursue either. I am satisfied to leave to these diary pages my
conclusion that running an empire is a lot more expensive than having a fat republic, sitting back, and
collecting profits. The British used to understand. If they hadnтАЩt forgotten, we probably wouldnтАЩt be
where we are today.

Ironically for someone reputed to be a political and military genius, Hitler has spent the entirety of his
retirement (he holds his title for life) ignoring both subjects and concentrating on his cultural theories. He
became a correspondent with the woman who chairs the anthropology department of New Berlin
University (no hearth and home for her) and behaved almost as though he were jealous of her job. Lucky
for her that he didnтАЩt stage aputsch . Besides, she was a fully accredited Nazi.

I think that Eva took it quite well.Kinder, K├╝che, Kirche!

As I stood in HitlerтАЩs sickroom, watching the man to whom I had devoted my life waning before me, I
felt an odd ambivalence. On one hand I was sorry to see him go. On the other hand I felt a kind of-IтАЩm
not sure how to put it-release. It was as though, when he died, I would at last begin my true retirement.
The other years of supposed resignation from public life did not count. Truly Adolf Hitler had been at the
very center of my life.

I wish that he had not made his parting comment.тАЬHerr Dr. Goebbels,тАЭ he said, and the returned