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The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be the end of European civilization itself. In his gripping, revelatory new book Ian Kershaw describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. The major question that Kershaw attempts to answer is: what made Germany keep on fighting? In almost every major war there has come a point where defeat has loomed for one side and its rulers have cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with a level of brutality almost without precedent. As the Allies closed in on every front extraordinary efforts were made by Hitler and his key 'paladins' to keep fighting way beyond the point where any rational plan for victory had vanished. A system based on terror, which had for years ravaged the countries conquered by the Nazis, was now visited on the Germans themselves. Both a highly original piece of research and a gripping narrative, The End makes vivid an era which still deeply scars Europe. It raises the most profound questions about the nature of the Second World War, about the Third Reich and about how ordinary people behave in extreme circumstances. - Publisher.
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Public opinion, Military leadership, World War, 1939-1945, Military Sociology, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, History, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY, Germany, Command of troops, Weltkrieg, Nationalsozialismus, Herrschaft, Öffentliche Meinung, Kriegsende, Social aspects, Andra världskriget 1939-1945, Militärsociologi, Militärt ledarskap, BMBF-Statusseminar gnd, Hitler, adolf, 1889-1945, World war, 1939-1945, germany, Sociology, military, Germany, history, 1933-1945People
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
Aug 28, 2012, Penguin Books
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The end: the defiance and destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
2011, Penguin Press
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