The book about Adolf Hitler put together for Josef Stalin and based on 10 years’ worth of interrogations of the Nazi leader’s valet and adjutant (see the MobyLives digest for 14 March 2005), unearthed this past summer in a Moscow archive by Matthias Uhl and Henrik Eberle, was officially published in Germany Monday. A Guardian report by Krysia Diver notes the book, called simply The Hitler Book, has generated intense interest after a series of excerpts appeared in the Bild newspaper. Among the revleations of those excerpts: “Hitler was so crippled with anxiety during his final days that he would scratch his neck and ears until they bled and demanded that his toilet water, as well as the water in which his eggs were boiled, be constantly analysed for traces of poison.” In a Reuters wire story, Erik Kirschbaum says the book gives “concrete evidence that Adolf Hitler was personally involved in the details of planning the Holocaust.” Uhl claims that “such tangible proof of Hitler’s role in the Holocaust that killed six million had not been found before.”