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The road to the Holocaust

Thursday, 7th August 2008

The Washington Post reviews a new collection of essays edited by  Ian Kershaw, author of that much-acclaimed biography of Hitler:

Was Hitler, as was once widely assumed, an all-powerful dictator or, as some historians have recently claimed, did his irregular working habits and disdain for detail leave key decisions to his ambitious subordinates? Kershaw has crafted a subtle and convincing position between these two extremes. He demonstrates that Hitler was at the centre of the Nazi state; nothing important -- and certainly not the Holocaust -- happened without his knowledge and approval. But Hitler's influence was frequently indirect, exerted through those who, in Kershaw's telling phrase, "worked towards the Führer," anticipating what they assumed were his goals and desires.

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