Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

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Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era. Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his disturbing policies - and whether or not he believed his own doctrines - and explores the continuing fascination with the nature of evil. The book also documents the story of the earliest critic of Hitler, the Munich Post in the 1920s and 1930s, and its violent demise. Goldhagen, and discussing the work of many more, Exploring Hitler is a balanced overview of a dark subject.

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Ron Rosenbaum's work has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Observer and Slate. He is the author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil and The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups.