James Hawes

Hitler’s legacy: two books examine different aspects of the horror that was Germany, 1945

Dark Lens and Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself reviewed

issue 21 September 2019
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  • Dark Lens

    Françoise Meltzer

    University of Chicago Press, pp. 256, £14

  • Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans

    Florian Huber

    Allen Lane, pp. 304, £14

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