Hopping in His Matchbox
Neal Ascherson: Hitler as a Human, 2 June 2016
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
by Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase.
Bodley Head, 758 pp., £25, March 2016,978 1 84792 285 4 Show More
by Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase.
Bodley Head, 758 pp., £25, March 2016,
“... ever more radical and terrible policies which are usually attributed to his invention alone. As Volker Ullrich points out, there is an apparent contradiction here. On the one hand, the Leader’s will was supposed to be absolute and monocratic, and anyone who could claim convincingly that he was carrying out ‘the Führer’s will’ would get his ... ”