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A review by oashackelford
The Devil's Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler's Limousine in America by Robert Klara
3.0
During World War II Hitler had a fleet of Mercedes-Benz limousines made to chauffeur himself and his high ranking staff around Germany. But what happened to those cars after the war? In fact several of them made their way to the United States, their notoriety making them highly sought after war memorabilia. The Devil's Mercedes follows the story of two of the more famous limousines that made their way to North America after the war and how the owners of the vehicles had to deal with the legacy that the cars upheld.
I thought this book was very interesting and extremely well researched. I did think that it got slow at times, and during certain parts of the book I think that the writer spent too much time describing parts of the car that were taken off or added. I think that those parts of the book would have been better if there had been diagrams or something to help illustrate the difference between what it should have looked like and what was added or changed, but overall I thought that the book walked a difficult line between appreciating fine workmanship and machinery, and not glorifying the third Reich.
I thought this book was very interesting and extremely well researched. I did think that it got slow at times, and during certain parts of the book I think that the writer spent too much time describing parts of the car that were taken off or added. I think that those parts of the book would have been better if there had been diagrams or something to help illustrate the difference between what it should have looked like and what was added or changed, but overall I thought that the book walked a difficult line between appreciating fine workmanship and machinery, and not glorifying the third Reich.