Behind the smile
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (back right) with his wife Margarete, playwright Hanns Johst and propagandist Edith von Coler. Understanding the allure of Nazism to such people is vital, says Richard J Evans
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A little over two decades ago, the first volume of my history of the Third Reich was published. My aim was to produce a comprehensive study encompassing the origins and rise of the Nazi
Influential Nazi thinker Alfred Rosenberg, who developed his antisemitic ideology after being forced to leave his home in Estonia
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