by Ian Kershaw
'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.' - Friedrich Nietzsche. I've studied Nazi Germany for years through my courses at university, college and High school, but also as an intere...
This will be a pivotal book for me. So far it keeps me enthralled. For so many years now I have put my German-ness into a big box and sat on it. Except for once (in my first book I relate the German story as seen from a child's POV) I never truly examined what happened in Nazi Germany. I felt like a...
in contrast to the [b:Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|767171|The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany|William L. Shirer|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1331223772s/767171.jpg|1437584] and other N/Germany surveys, this is a personal biography, and Kershaw does a cra...
After months of being immersed in the life of a man thought of by many as the purest example of evil, today I can finally say: IT’S OVER!!!! But don’t get the wrong impression: My sense of release comes not from closing a horrible book, but from ending a fantastic biography about a terrible subject....
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