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| | Commentary Magazine - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Shirer has written nothing like the definitive historical study of the third Reich which it has been his ambition to compose for the benefit of future generations. |
 | | ...Shirer knows all this, he is obstinate enough to write his history of the Third Reich as though Germany had been a Western democracy which unaccountably went wrong owing to the loss of the 1914-18 war, inflation, unemployment, and other factors exploited by the demonic Nazis, and Hitler in particular... |
 | | ...Trevor-Roper, in his preface, falls into the same trap, and then entangles himself further by asserting, in his worst rhetorical manner, that Hitler was "the Rousseau, the Mirabeau, the Robespierre, the Napoleon of his revolution: its Marx, its Lenin, its Trotsky, its Stalin... |
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