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100 1 _aEvans, Richard J
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245 1 0 _aHitler's people :
_bthe faces of the Third Reich /
_cRichard J. Evans
260 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Press,
_c2024
300 _a xx, 598 pages :
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_c 25 cm
505 _a The Lady at the Trial The Dictator: Adolf Hitler The 'Iron Man': Hermann Göring The Propagandist: Joseph Goebbels The Soldier: Ernst Röhm The Policeman: Heinrich Himmler The Diplomat: Joachim von Ribbentrop The Philosopher: Alfred Rosenberg The Architect: Albert Speer The Deputy: Rudolf Hess The Collaborator: Franz von Papen The 'Worker': Robert Ley The Schoolmaster: Julius Streicher The Hangman: Reinhard Heydrich The Bureaucrat: Adolf Eichmann The Loudmouth: Hans Frank The General: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb The Professional: Karl Brandt The Killers: Paul Zapp and Egon Zill The 'Witch' and the 'Beast': Ilse Koch and Irma Grese The Mother: Gertrud Scholtz- Klink The Star: Leni Riefenstahl The Denunciator: Luise Solmitz The Lady on the Train
520 _aThrough a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radiated from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regime’s leadership, one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question: How does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil? Richard J. Evans, author of the acclaimed Third Reich trilogy and more than a dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Ger­many. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement—namely, the lives of its most important and representative members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Hitler’s People forms a typological framework of German society under Nazi rule from the top down. With a novelist’s eye for detail, Evans explains the Third Reich through the personal characteristics and professional ambitions of its members, from its most notorious deputies—such as Goebbels, the regime’s propagandist, and Himmler, the Holocaust’s chief architect—to the crucial enforcers and instruments of the Nazi agenda that history has largely forgotten, such as the schoolteacher Julius Streicher or the actress and film director Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing on a wealth of recently unearthed historical sources, Hitler’s People lays bare the characters whose choices caused the deaths of millions. Nearly a century after Hitler’s rise, the leading nations of the west are once again being torn apart by an untamed will to power. By telling the stories of these infamous individuals as human lives, Evans asks us to grapple with the compli­cated nature of agency and complicity, showing us that the distinctions between individual and collective responsibility—and even between pathological evil and rational choice—are never easily drawn.
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