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Ian Kershaw

(1943) Contemporary Historian

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Ian Kershaw is a contemporary historian, best known for Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris.

Quick Facts About Ian Kershaw

Born: April 29, 1943
Profession: Contemporary Historian
Notable works: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

About Ian Kershaw

Sir Ian Kershaw is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Nazi Germany and noted for his biography of Adolf Hitler.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Ian Kershaw

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology.…

Accidents

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Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of…

Communication

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Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church'…

Cardinals

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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Auschwitz

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“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing”

Karl Marx

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The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political…

Appeals

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Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

Business

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Hitler was never a socialist.

Socialist

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Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have…

Ability

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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…

Capable

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“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in…

Politics

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Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

Backgrounds

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In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.…

1930s

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