THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Elegantly written and powerfully argued ... it ranks
among the best works on this terrible period' Sunday Times A biographical study of Hitler's
inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime Why did so many
Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow
him almost to the very end? For too long the Nazis have been presented as little more than
psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use
of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from
the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human
beings who were disturbingly like us. Evans offers rounded fresh and often startling new
portraits of the men and women who created and served Nazi Germany beginning with Hitler
himself and going on to encompass leading figures like Göring Goebbels and Himmler enforcers
of Hitler's orders such as Eichmann and Heydrich propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl
low-level perpetrators such as the notorious Irma Grese and unknown sympathizers and
fellow-travellers who helped the regime in myriad ways. Hitler's People is a chilling
brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the
Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have
disappeared.
