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Ian Kershaw. Sir Ian Kershaw FRHistS FBA (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is particularly noted for his biographies of Hitler.
ISBN. 978-0-7139-9716-3. The End: Hitler's Germany 1944–45 is a 2011 book by Sir Ian Kershaw, in which the author charts the course of World War II between the period of the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944, by Claus von Stauffenberg, until late May 1945, when the last of the Nazi regime's leaders were arrested and ...
Hitler is a two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, written by the historian Ian Kershaw. Its volumes are Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, published in 1998, and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, published in 2000. An abridged single-volume edition was published in 2008. Kershaw's biography is informed by his "Working towards the Führer" theory. [1]
The myth of Hitler as the savior of Germany from conspiracies directed against it by the Soviet Union and the West – especially by the Third French Republic – was an extremely powerful tool in binding together the German people in loyalty, obedience, and subservience to the State. The German people were left embittered by the ineffective ...
The British historian Sir Ian Kershaw wrote that he fully agreed with Jäckel on the merits of Hitler's Willing Executioners". [69] Kershaw wrote in 2000 that Goldhagen's book would "occupy only a limited place in the unfolding, vast historiography of such a crucially important topic-probably at best as a challenge to historians to qualify or ...
The British historian Sir Ian Kershaw has argued that there are two approaches to the Widerstand question, one of which he calls the fundamentalist (dealing with those committed to overthrowing the Nazi regime) and the societal (dealing with forms of dissent in "everyday life").
The historical and script consultant was Prof. Sir Ian Kershaw, who also appears briefly in the "Chaos and Consent" episode. The series was narrated by actor Samuel West . The music used over the opening credits is "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras", the second movement of Brahms ' A German Requiem .
However, several historians, such as Anton Joachimsthaler, [87] and Sir Ian Kershaw, [88] say that Hitler's paternity is unlikely or impossible to prove, although DNA testing in comparison to a surviving known relative of Adolf Hitler could resolve this. Nevertheless, it was noted that the two shared a strong physical resemblance.