Essays on Hitler's Europe

About this book

The author, considered to be one of the world's most knowledgable authorities on the Second World War. His commentary has been among the most illuminating and influential contributions to the vast discourse on the politics, history, and scholarship of the period. Here, these articles are collected for the first time. They chart changing reactions and analyses by the regimes and populations of Europe and reveal how postwar governments, hsitorians, and ordinary citizens attempt to come to terms with--or to evade--the realities of the Holocaust, war, fascism, and resistance movements. They track the acts of scoundrels and the collusion of ordinary ciitzens in the so-called Final Solution but also show how others in authority and on the street heroically opposed the evil of the day.