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The Hitler Conspiracies - The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Hitler Conspiracies - The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination (Hardcover)
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'Both hard to put down and brilliantly insightful ... a 5 out of 5
masterpiece' Martin Bentham, Evening Standard The renowned
historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories
surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for
the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in
history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight,
that everything is the result of the secret machinations of malign
groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes -
these notions are as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories
are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first
century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist
accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited
conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given
credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles
of investigation. In The Hitler Conspiracies renowned historian
Richard Evans takes five widely discussed claims involving Hitler
and the Nazis and subjects them to forensic scrutiny: that the Jews
were conspiring to undermine civilization, as outlined in The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion; that the German army was 'stabbed
in the back' by socialists and Jews in 1918; that the Nazis burned
down the Reichstag in order to seize power; that Rudolf Hess'
flight to the UK in 1941 was sanctioned by Hitler and conveyed
peace terms suppressed by Churchill; and that Hitler escaped the
bunker in 1945 and fled to South America. In doing so, it teases
out some surprising features that these, and other conspiracy
theories, have in common. This is a history book, but it is a
history book for the age of 'post-truth' and 'alternative facts': a
book for our own troubled times.
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