Overview
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radiated out from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regimeās leadership, one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question, how does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil?
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitlerās People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members.
Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down. With a novelistās eye for detail, Evans explains the Third Reich through the personal failings and professional ambitions of its members, from its most notorious deputiesālike Goebbels, the regimeās propagandist, and Himmler, the Holocaustās chief architectāto the crucial enforcers and instruments of the Nazi agenda that history has largely forgottenālike the schoolteacher Julius Streicher and the actress Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing on a wealth of recently unearthed historical sources, Hitlerās People lays bare the inner and outer lives of the characters whose choices led to the deaths of millions.
Nearly a century after Hitlerās rise, the leading nations of the West are once again being torn apart by a will to power. By telling the stories of these infamous lives as human lives, Evans asks us to grapple with the complicated nature of complicity, showing us that the distinctions between individual and collective responsibilityāand even between pathological evil and rational choiceāare never easily drawn.
This book title, Hitler's People (The Faces of the Third Reich), ISBN: 9780593296424, by Richard J Evans, published by Penguin Publishing Group (August 13, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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