The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
Richard J Evans was regius professor of history at Cambridge University from 2008 to retirement in 2014. In the millennium year, he served as the expert witness for Penguin Books in the libel case brought unsuccessfully by Holocaust-denier David Irving. Evans’s three-volume history of the Third Reich, completed in 2008, is the definitive account. A new book, Hitler’s People, re-examines that history through the life stories of prominent Nazis and supporters of the regime.
After completing your trilogy on the Third Reich, why did you want to return to this material now?
There were several reasons. One was that the biographical approach to German history became very unfashionable – because historians were wary of the Nazi cult of personality.
Richard J Evans was regius professor of history at Cambridge University from 2008 to retirement in 2014. In the millennium year, he served as the expert witness for Penguin Books in the libel case brought unsuccessfully by Holocaust-denier David Irving. Evans’s three-volume history of the Third Reich, completed in 2008, is the definitive account. A new book, Hitler’s People, re-examines that history through the life stories of prominent Nazis and supporters of the regime.
After completing your trilogy on the Third Reich, why did you want to return to this material now?
There were several reasons. One was that the biographical approach to German history became very unfashionable – because historians were wary of the Nazi cult of personality.
- 8/3/2024
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
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