Into Dust
Richard J. Evans
- BuyThe End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
Allen Lane, 564 pp, £30.00, August 2011, ISBN 978 0 7139 9716 3
Why did the Germans keep on fighting to the bitter end in 1945, long after it was clear to almost everybody that the war was lost? From the catastrophic defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad early in 1943, through the devastating Allied bombing raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, reports on popular opinion filed by secret agents of the Nazi regime record a growing belief that Germany was going to lose. So why did Germans not rise up and force the regime to sue for peace? Towards the end of the First World War, recognition that the war was lost led senior generals to the negotiating table. Not so in 1944-45. Why not?
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Vol. 33 No. 17 · 8 September 2011 » Richard J. Evans » Into Dust
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