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Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution | 
| Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0300124279
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318
EAN: 9780300124279
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Publication Date: June 27, 2008
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Comments by Michael Calum Jacques author of '1st Century Radical'. November 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This collection of essays by Ian Kershaw - perhaps best known as Hitler's biographer - has already received broad and deep plaudits from both historical and political scholarly camps.
Kershaw has been among the most persistent and intuitive historians writing about the subject of Nazi Germany. This work may be added to his other definitive studies on the phenomenon of and the phenomena surrounding the Third Reich as well as, of course, his aforementioned monumental biography of Hitler. This work is a vast read which pools a number of diverse articles into one volume; it remains unified, however and is, at no point, disparate.
Kershaw is a well-established historian of the socio-political history of the Third Reich, and the causes and subsequent (and much cataloged) consequences of Nazi policy. His views have attracted much attention particularly with respect to the vexed question of how much or how little the attitudes of the German populace influenced or did not influence Nazi policy. This single volume proffers the reader a thorough, well chronicled outline both of the catastrophic damage inflicted by the Nazi leadership, as well as the prevalent views and attitudes of the 'run of the mill' German folk as what started out as the basic segregation of the Jews then hurtled headlong into dire persecution, culminating in an attempt at outright, blanket genocide.
This work is, apparently, the culmination of over thirty years of in-depth historical research on Nazi Germany by one of that era's most acclaimed historians. It also has the merit of collating many characteristic and defining aspects of Ian Kershaw's previous research on the Holocaust for the first time, making it especially useful as a one-off 'drop in' resource for a private or institutional reference library.
The book is are structured in five sections, dealing with
(Introduction)
Hitler and the Final Solution
Popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany
The Final Solution in historiography
The Uniqueness of Nazism.
The can be little doubt about the quality of the research or of the 'readability of this book. Much valuable information is crammed into its 400 odd pages. This reviewer, for one, reckons that many if not all of Ian Kershaw's readers and followers will be delighted by this one!
Michael Calum Jacques (author of 1st Century Radical: the shadowy origins of the man who became known as Jesus Christ)
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