Katja Hoyer is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her books include Blood and Iron and Beyond the Wall.
It would be decades before younger Germans emerged from the national solipsism of their parents and recognised the suffering wreaked by German fascism on other peoples. When they did so, not least through...
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