“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and the difficult and often opaque nature of the situations they confronted. Contemporaries could not see things as clearly… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share
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 and often opaque nature of the situations they confronted. Contemporaries could not see things as clearly as we can, with the gift of hindsight: they could not know in 1930 what was to come in 1933,… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share
“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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