“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin 'Reign of Terror' in 1793-4, and the implicit idea of a popular dictatorship in Rousseau's theory of the… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What’s the difference between India and Germany?’ went one popular joke reported in the spring of 1943. ‘In India, one person [Gandhi] starves for… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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