And he was played by Rutger Hauer in the US encomium.
Full disclosure: I was taken in by it.
@LiberalLibrarian @Rustbelt_Dem Even Shirer, who was so untrusting of the Germans that he vehemently opposed reunification and predicted a new Nazi state, was taken in by Speer.
I wish I still had these books, but in the late 70s / early 80s, there were a series of Star Trek books which plotted out future history, and an imperialist German state was a major feature.
@LiberalLibrarian @Rustbelt_Dem The CDU head who just tried to greenlight local cooperation with the AfD might lend some support to that notion... but the reaction he got suggests otherwise.
I have to see if my librarian kung-fu skills can find these books. They were pretty obscure even back then.
@LiberalLibrarian @Rustbelt_Dem I'm still thrilled I finally found the sci fi short story that so impressed me in 1982 and that no one ever seemed to have heard of.