What’s the difference between India and Germany?’ went one…

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just…

— Richard J. Evans

“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and the difficult…

— Richard J. Evans

“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World War, and…

— Richard J. Evans

“The extermination of the Jews has sometimes been seen as a kind of industrialized, assembly-line kind of mass murder, and this picture has at…

— Richard J. Evans

“Thus the pace, justification and mode of implementation of the genocide changed repeatedly from its inception in the summer of 1941. Examining the origins…

— Richard J. Evans

“In each of the following chapters, dealing in turn with policing and repression, culture and propaganda, religion and education, the economy, society and everyday…

— Richard J. Evans

“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from…

— Richard J. Evans

“Some judicial officials began to notice the unusual frequency of deaths among the inmates of institutions and some prosecutors even considered asking the Gestapo…

— Richard J. Evans

“His order [Hitler's] to stand firm not only created clarity about what the army was doing but also had some effect in improving morale.…

— Richard J. Evans

Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews,…

— Richard J. Evans

“In the penal system, where many of these people would eventually end up, the rapidly growing problem of petty crime had already led to…

— Richard J. Evans

“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin 'Reign of…

— Richard J. Evans