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The swastika was always in plain sight

Reviewing two new books on the Third Reich, Dominic Green argues that, by transferring ‘collective will’ to Hitler, the German volk were entirely complicit in Nazi atrocities

issue 24 October 2015

  • The War in the West: Germany Ascendant, 1939–1941

    James Holland

    Bantam, pp. 652

  • The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45

    Nicholas Stargardt

    Bodley Head, pp. 696

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