in its war against the Soviets (p. 209). Efforts towards a detente between Germany and the U.S. are being made, however (p. 239), and the U.S. president Joe Kennedy (JFK's father), pro-German, isolationist, appeaser, and anti-Semite (pp. 120, 310), is about to make a state visit to Germany. Stalin's various crimes, the purges, the gulags,