TY - JOUR AU - Enssle, Manfred J. AB - 532 Reviews of Books pressing its opponente with the utmost brutality under text as "the writer and his wife") that Papen could do linie wrong (pp. 465, 497, 498). the thin guise of law. For the nonspecialist reader, probably the most in- Guided by their premise, the authors portray Papen as a selfless patriot and victim of circumstances who was teresting sections of the book are those dealing with obstructed by people of ill will. In the process, however, concrete instances of clashes between the inherited they employ several exceedingly questionable methods practices of German law officers, on the one hand, and to defend him. For example, during Papen's service as Nazi illegality, on the other. Thus, Gruchmann graph- military attaché in the United States in the first two ically describes the stubborn efforts of a few state years of World War I, he hired agents in the fashion of attorneys to investigate the bestial mistreatment of other military attachés. To the authors this "was all prisoners by their guards in various "provisional" con- quite natura(" (p. 16). But, when Papen's agents were centration camps during 1933 and 1934, interventions apprehended and their activities were exposed and that rarely TI - henry m. adams and robin k. adams. Rebel Patriot: A Biography of Franz von Papen. Santa Barbara, Calif.: McNally and Loftin. 1987. Pp. 513. $25.00 JF - The American Historical Review DO - 10.1086/ahr/95.2.532 DA - 1990-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/henry-m-adams-and-robin-k-adams-rebel-patriot-a-biography-of-franz-von-Mxs2IXPv08 SP - 532 EP - 533 VL - 95 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -