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Article: The Hitler Problem.(Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 22, 2001
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Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis, by Ian Kershaw (Norton, 1,115 pp., $35)
Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler, a prodigious work of more than 2,000 pages, comes at an exciting moment in the study of the Nazi regime and its indispensable man. Behind Kershaw lies a half century of scholarship in these matters, and a number of important and detailed controversies. Now Kershaw, who teaches at the University of Sheffield and has mastered the bulk of this material, is in a position to sum it up, express the mainstream professional consensus, and by adjudicating the principal questions produce the best account we are likely to have of the man in his time.
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