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The Hitler Conspiracies

- The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Af: Richard J. Evans Engelsk Paperback

The Hitler Conspiracies

- The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Af: Richard J. Evans Engelsk Paperback
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''Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece'' Evening Standard

The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the ''post-truth'' age

The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles of investigation.

This book takes five widely discussed claims involving Hitler and the Nazis and subjects them to forensic scrutiny: that the Jews were conspiring to undermine civilization, as outlined in ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion''; that the German army was ''stabbed in the back'' by socialists and Jews in 1918; that the Nazis burned down the Reichstag in order to seize power; that Rudolf Hess'' flight to the UK in 1941 was sanctioned by Hitler and conveyed peace terms suppressed by Churchill; and that Hitler escaped the bunker in 1945 and fled to South America. In doing so, it teases out some surprising features these, and other conspiracy theories, have in common.

This is a history book, but it is a history book for the age of ''post-truth'' and ''alternative facts'': a book for our own troubled times.

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''Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece'' Evening Standard

The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the ''post-truth'' age

The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles of investigation.

This book takes five widely discussed claims involving Hitler and the Nazis and subjects them to forensic scrutiny: that the Jews were conspiring to undermine civilization, as outlined in ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion''; that the German army was ''stabbed in the back'' by socialists and Jews in 1918; that the Nazis burned down the Reichstag in order to seize power; that Rudolf Hess'' flight to the UK in 1941 was sanctioned by Hitler and conveyed peace terms suppressed by Churchill; and that Hitler escaped the bunker in 1945 and fled to South America. In doing so, it teases out some surprising features these, and other conspiracy theories, have in common.

This is a history book, but it is a history book for the age of ''post-truth'' and ''alternative facts'': a book for our own troubled times.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780141991498
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0141991496
Kategori: Germany
Udg. Dato: 24 jun 2021
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 24 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): Richard J. Evans
Forfatter(e) Richard J. Evans


Kategori Germany


ISBN-13 9780141991498


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 127mm


Udg. Dato 24 jun 2021


Oplagsdato 24 jun 2021


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd