Books: Germany

THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION—Hermann Rauschning—Putnam ($2.75).

THE OTHER GERMANY—Erlka & Klaus Mann—Modern Age ($2.75).

WHAT GERMANY FORGOT—James T. Shotwell—Macmillan ($1 .50).

Every month multiplies the number of ambitious plans for "Federal Union" of the democracies, of Europe, of the world (TIME, Feb. 19). Basic to such plans is recognition of the fact that European reconstruction and the problem of Germany are closely, not to say, desperately, related. Yet who among these planners has envisioned a credible future—or any future at all—for Germany?

Several recent books offer concrete facts, qualified interpretation, on some but not all aspects...