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Hitler's People

The Faces of the Third Reich

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Hitler's People

Yazan: Richard J. Evans
Seslendiren: Leighton Pugh
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Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us.

Evans offers rounded, fresh and often startling new portraits of the men and women who created and served Nazi Germany, beginning with Hitler himself and going on to encompass leading figures like Göring, Goebbels and Himmler, enforcers of Hitler’s orders such as Eichmann and Heydrich, propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl, low-level perpetrators such as the notorious Irma Grese and unknown sympathizers and fellow-travellers who helped the regime in myriad ways.

Hitler’s People is a chilling, brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have disappeared.


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Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich shows how valuable a biographical approach to the past can be. The book combines gripping individual portraits, all exhaustively researched and deftly painted (Kristin Semmens)
A meticulously researched, sobering look at the Nazi era and the people who helped bring its evil intents to fruition
An important [and] sobering book that depicts the duplicity of manipulators, opportunists and psychopaths to convince gullible multitudes into becoming mass murderers. Professor Evans has produced an incisive commentary on the continuing fragile nature of the human condition.
[Richard J. Evans] argues persuasively that only by examining individual personalities can we understand ‘the perverted morality that made and sustained the Nazi regime… . His book is enriched by the findings of recent scholarship and his pen portraits have all the excitement of novelty. Even his depiction of Hitler feels fresh (Piers Brendon)
A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context... Evans has provided us with just the kind of probing, nuanced and unsparing study to help us think things through (Jennifer Szalai)
Evans dispenses his judgments about how Nazism happened and developed in bite-sized, almost laconic, pieces attached to the short biographies. This has the effect of inviting the readers to draw some of their own lessons.... if Evans’s purpose is getting the reader to think about what is particular and what is universal about the descent of one of the world’s most “civilised” nations into genocidal barbarism, then I believe it succeeds (David Aaronovitch)
Evans has chronicled Nazi Germany before, but never with such urgency… His previous books, which include a masterful trilogy on the rise, rule, and destruction of the Nazi movement, are models of historical writing, a combination of narrative and exploration, scholarship for the sake of scholarship and yet volumes that are immensely readable, even novelistic in style… Hitler’s People is similar in its polish and power. But the motivation and purpose of this latest work, a sweeping examination of Adolf Hitler and his subalterns and subjects, is more utilitarian
What drove Germany’s citizens and leaders to support a regime committed to war, genocide and dictatorship? Evans, a prominent historian of Nazism, tackles a question that remains even now a conundrum, seeking, through portraits of diverse Third Reich figures — including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess and Hitler himself as well as the architect Albert Speer and the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl — a common human denominator
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Varied perspectives about the people in charge of the third reich. Well written and spoken by someone who, thank heavens, spoke German. The horror of the killings and camps became a bit much.

The last 2 chapters were very illuminating

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this was a fabulous insight into the warped minds of the Nazi elite chilling

the brutal regime

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I’ve read the trilogy by Prof Richard Evans , which is a straight forward history of the Nazis. This takes a different approach and is a great read for it. Linking a theme throughout, he makes his case well. I’d read a shopping list written by him.

Well crafted.

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This is a brilliant, incisive study which concludes that Nazis were not psychopaths or monsters. That's just lazy and flies in the face of the facts. I found the chapters on less famous figures the most revealing (wish he'd done one on the ghastly judge Roland Freisler). As a German speaker I appreciated the choice of a narrator who pronounces names etc clearly and correctly. A compelling listen.

Fascinating insights

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informative and interesting listen from start to finish especially how it approached the various subjects within the book. The narrator was very good.

A fascinating....

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