07/06/2016 12:08 jpost.com
A call for historical accuracy
By EFRAIM ZUROFF

Sir Richard Evans provides an unequivocal defense of the historical uniqueness of the Holocaust, an assertion which has increasingly come under attack in recent years.

THE HISTORIAN Sir Richard Evans, currently president of Wolfson College, Cambridge University and provost of Gresham College, London, is undoubtedly one of the most knowledgeable people on the history of the Third Reich. He is the author of the widely acclaimed trilogy published between 2003 and 2008 which charted the rise of Hitler’s regime (The Coming of the Third Reich), the consolidation of its grip on Germany (The Third Reich in Power), and the war it waged to fulfill its territorial and racial ambitions and which it ultimately lost (The Third Reich At War). He thus is uniquely qualified to comment on the historiography of the Nazi regime, and how the memory of the Third Reich and the Holocaust are currently being perceived.

This latest volume, which primarily consists of his recent book reviews and lectures, showcases the breadth of his knowledge and his deep erudition. Most important, it provides perceptive insights on a wide range of subjects related to the history of the Third Reich, in light of recent research which has sought, correctly or inaccurately in Evans’s opinion, to transform our understanding of Nazi Germany.

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