RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewRemarkably rich ... As Trentmann captures, the post-1945 transformation has been remarkable ... Usefully reveals the roots of...ethical knots. Trentmann is still hopeful that Germans can untangle them.
Harald Jähner tr. Shaun Whiteside
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... highly readable ... a paradox of reconciliation is infuriating, yet hard to dismiss.
Volker Ullrich, Trans. By Jefferson Chase
RaveThe New York Times Book Review... skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing ... accomplished ... Readers and writers persistently return to the rise and fall of Hitler — Ullrich’s biography is the latest on a long shelf. There is the force of Hitler’s personality and the consequence of the will of a single individual, of course. But we also return because the Third Reich reveals the power of public fantasies. The liberal mind-set is not the default position.
