Letter: Read the history of the Third Reich

It’s time for Americans to read William L. Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.”Modern criticisms aside, the book offers a plenitude of facts surrounding the Hitler/Nazi takeover and complete political and economic ruination of Germany and much of Europe.Ironically, the Third Reich, what Hitler termed “Thousand Year Reich,” survived the death of its founder by just seven days.Shirer describes a coup d’etat that overthrew the German Republic in