{"product_id":"hitlers-people-the-faces-of-the-third-reich-9780593296424","title":"Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail  A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive. Wall Street Journal  Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context . . . Just the kind of probing  nuanced and unsparing study to help us think things through. The New York Times  Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radiated from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regimes leadership  one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question: How does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil?  Richard J. Evans  author of the acclaimed Third Reich trilogy and more than a dozen other volumes on modern Europe  is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history  in Hitlers People he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movementnamely  the lives of its most important and representative members.  Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies  Hitlers People forms a typological framework of German society under Nazi rule from the top down. With a novelists eye for detail  Evans explains the Third Reich through the personal characteristics and professional ambitions of its members  from its most notorious deputiessuch as Goebbels  the regimes propagandist  and Himmler  the Holocausts chief architectto the crucial enforcers and instruments of the Nazi agenda that history has largely forgotten  such as the schoolteacher Julius Streicher or the actress and film director Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing on a wealth of recently unearthed historical sources  Hitlers People lays bare the characters whose choices caused the deaths of millions.  Nearly a century after Hitlers rise  the leading nations of the west are once again being torn apart by an untamed will to power. By telling the stories of these infamous individuals as human lives  Evans asks us to grapple with the complicated nature of agency and complicity  showing us that the distinctions between individual and collective responsibilityand even between pathological evil and rational choiceare never easily drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953272152117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593296427","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593296424.jpg?v=1788183692","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hitlers-people-the-faces-of-the-third-reich-9780593296424","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}