Come to think of it, I don't have any book that contributed to who I am today. I can think of a lot of books broadening my knowledge or my horizon or simply entertaining me in a most pleasant way, but who I am is entirely a result of the world surrounding me. And probably of my upbringing, but this would be too long and would derail this thread. Suffice to say, I come from a family that had to flee from Hitler and that makes me especially sensible to every kind of bigotry and exclusivness.
Consequently I did a lot of reading about it in my time. I've read all 22 volumes of the Nuremberg tribunal protocols. I've also read the accounts of the perpetrators, such as Rudolf Höss or the diaries of Josef Goebbels. Well, maybe that kind of reading actually led me on some kind of path after all, since from there I got interested in criminal profiling and read the books of John Douglas, but also the ones of Thomas Müller, who is one of the most prominent european authorities in the field.
Consequently I did a lot of reading about it in my time. I've read all 22 volumes of the Nuremberg tribunal protocols. I've also read the accounts of the perpetrators, such as Rudolf Höss or the diaries of Josef Goebbels. Well, maybe that kind of reading actually led me on some kind of path after all, since from there I got interested in criminal profiling and read the books of John Douglas, but also the ones of Thomas Müller, who is one of the most prominent european authorities in the field.