📗 Libro en inglés HITLERS PEOPLE

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Elegantly written and powerfully argued it ranks among the best works on this terrible period Sunday TimesA biographical study of Hitler s inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regimeWhy 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 writ