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December 11, 2024

What Made Hitler’s Henchmen Tick

A new book sheds a little light on a cosmic puzzle.

Perhaps the best way to understand the intellectual deformations of anti-Semitism or the psychologies of those who serve totalitarian regimes is through literary explorations like Kafka’s. But for those who prefer the historical method, it’s hard to do much better than the careful works of Richard J. Evans, who recently wrote Hitler’s People, a study of the 22 high-ranking Nazis closest to Führer. Josef Joffe writes in his review:

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