>...Mention of Hitler brings us back full circle to the unmistakable parallels
between Nazism and what I have elsewhere called "Islamic fascism"-similarities
that have emerged into sharper relief following the Twin Towers attacks of
September 11, 2001.56 More than half a century ago, on November 18, 1947, the
führer's closest confidant, Albert Speer, wrote the following recollection in
his Spandau prison diary, which today sounds eerily prophetic:
I recall how [Hitler] would have films shown in the Reich Chancellory about London burning, about the sea of fire over Warsaw, about exploding convoys, and the kind of ravenous joy that would then seize him every time. But I never saw him so beside himself as when, in a delirium, he pictured New York going down in flames. He described how the skyscrapers would be transformed into gigantic burning torches, how they would collapse in confusion, how the bursting city's reflection would stand against the dark sky.57