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The Third Reich - A New History (Paperback, New edition)
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The Third Reich - A New History (Paperback, New edition)
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Michael Burleigh's study of the Nazi phenomenon was the most
important book I have read this year. It made me change my mind,
which is no mean feat. Or at least it helped me change a frame of
mind that tended to a lazy stereotyping on the topic of the Third
Reich. In one volume no heftier than it has to be, the author has
finally brought unity to a period previously fragmented by
professional historians of the 20th century beyond any laypersons
overview. In measured language, Burleigh begins with he roots of
Nazism in national humiliation and defeat; he takes us through the
years of Germany's undeniable vigour, and to its end and post-45
rehabilitation. By showing the movement as a messianic political
cause, a storm-trooping parody of the Wagnerian romance, Burleigh
helped me understand for the first time how the runt, Adolf Hitler,
was able to put himself in place as the hero of his nation. To be
non-judgmental about the events of that period requires restraint
and intellectual probity. Except for a faint subliminal revulsion
that I sensed occasionally, particularly when Himmler was in
evidence, Burleigh keeps his cool. He distinguished the Holocaust
from subsequent examples of the monstrosity we now call 'ethnic
cleansing' not only for its precise engineering and organisation,
but also because it was undertaken as a comprehensive and
existential battle against Jews everywhere. The Third Reich is
gripping and comprehensive. At last, the seminal book for those of
us who never want to see another film or read another word about
World War II and the Nazis. (Kirkus UK)
Setting Nazi Germany in a European context, this text shows how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in Europe at the time. It shows how a radical, pseudo-religious movement seemed to offer salvation to a Germany exhausted by war, depression and inflation.
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