"The extreme form of personal rule which an ill-educated beerhall demagogue and racist bigot, a narcissistic, megalomaniac, self-styled national saviour, was allowed to acquire and exercise in a modern economically advanced, and cultured land known for its philosophers and poets was absolutely decisive in the terrible unfolding of events in those fateful twelve years." (From the book: 'Hitler: A Biography' by Ian Kershaw)The ability to confront such dreadful truths in a clear-headed, subtle and insightful manner -- and to express them in pithy, revealing language -- this is why Kershaw is the indispensable and definitive guide to Hitler, Nazism and the nation that, for a while, shamefully refracted his evil genius.
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