Hitler's People

Resumen del libro

Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us.

Evans offers rounded, fresh and often startling new portraits of the men and women who created and served Nazi Germany, beginning with Hitler himself and going on to encompass leading figures like Göring, Goebbels and Himmler, enforcers of Hitler's orders such as Eichmann and Heydrich, propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl, low-level perpetrators such as the notorious Irma Grese and unknown sympathizers and fellow-travellers who helped the regime in myriad ways. Hitler's People is a chilling, brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have disappeared.

Biografía del autor

Richard J. Evans es una de las autoridades más destacadas del mundo sobre el Tercer Reich. Es catedrático emérito de Historia en la Universidad de Cambridge y rector del Gresham College de la ciudad de Londres. Ha ganado numerosos premios por sus libros, entre ellos el Premio Wolfson de Historia, el Premio y la Medalla Leverhulme de la Academia Británica y la Medalla Cívica de Hamburgo para las Artes y las Ciencias. En 2012 fue nombrado caballero por los servicios prestados a la erudición. Es autor de numerosos libros sobre la historia moderna de Alemania y Europa, los más recientes La lucha por el poder: Europa 1815-1914 (Crítica, 2017) y Hitler y las teorías de la conspiración (Crítica, 2021). Alcanzó el éxito mundial con su trilogía La llegada del Tercer Reich (Península, 2005), El Tercer Reich en el poder (Península, 2007) y El Tercer Reich en guerra (Península, 2011).