Hitler in the Mirror

Touring the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City, the aircraft, tanks, tracked and wheeled vehicles outside,and inside jeeps,weapons and uniforms,all standard military fare,except for a room of original cartoons by Bill Mauldin and a history of the 45th insignia, originally a swastika, by way of and for the many Native Americans,who, since 1920, served honorably in that division. They forsook the swastika in 1933, for obvious reasons, and became the thunderbirds. But, nothing came to life, not like seeing Napoleon's stuffed horse and dog in a dusty room in Paris, then I entered a room filled with treasures taken from the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden, the apartment and bunker in Berlin, including furniture and a dining room table with chairs, place settings with Nazi napkins, knives, forks and spoons one could easily imagine sliding into the mouth of Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Rommel, Chamberlain, Loyd George, Mussolini...Eva Braun. Alone in the room, I quietly circled the table so as not to disturb the guests.  Passing a mirror on the wall, I looked into it and saw Adolf Hitler staring back.