They stooped to conquer
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5080911

Oct 27th 2005

From The Economist print edition

HISTORIES of Hitler get bigger all the time. Five years ago, Sir Ian
Kershaw concluded his monumental two-volume life of the German
dictator. Now, Richard Evans, professor of modern history at Cambridge
University, is bringing out a three-volume study of the Third Reich and
its origins. The escalating size of these histories is easily
explained. There is more secondary literature on Hitler and the Nazis
than could possibly be read in a lifetime, while historians have moved
away from offering simplistic explanations for what happened in Germany
in the middle of the 20th century.

In the 1960s, Hitler, and fascism in general, were dismissed by Marxist
historians as capitalism's panic-driven response to the inter-war
economic and social crisis. Other historians focused on Hitler's
personal history as if this were emblematic of the wider story. The
German people were seen as prisoners of his madness; mere victims. Now
the big questions are different. The reality is immensely complex.
There are many causes, not one.

The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939
By Richard J. Evans
Penguin Press; 941 pages; $37.95.

Penguin/Allen Lane; £30

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