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How could Hitler have had so many willing henchmen?

Richard J. Evans tackles one of the Third Reich’s great mysteries. Why did so many apparently ‘normal’ Germans end up as perpetrators of mass atrocities?

Hans Frank. [Alamy]
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  • Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich

    Richard J. Evans

    Viking, pp. 624, £35

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