Richard J. Evans

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard J. Evans

“What’s the difference between India and Germany?’ went one popular joke reported in the spring of 1943. ‘In India, one person [Gandhi]…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard J. Evans