Anyone read any of Richard J Evans trilogy about the Third Reich?

[raccoon]

Anyone read any of Richard J Evans trilogy about the Third Reich?

The coming of the third Reich,
the third Reich in power,
the third Reich at war.

I am about 200 pages into the first one. It has unpleasant similarities to the present time. In the US that is.

I suppose I read too much about that stuff. But I have been fascinated by it as long as I can remember.

[hlthe2b]

1. I read William Shirer's: Rise and Fall of the Third Reich long ago...

It had always been the quintessential book on the subject, I thought, but I hadn't read Evan's work.

I find history fascinating, but right now, not sure I want to read more on the subject. It hits too close to home.

[raccoon]

3. Evans's books have come out much more recently. In the 21st-century.

Evans’s books have come out much more recently. In the 21st-century.

I read Shirer’s book to and it is Quite good.

[Cartoonist]

2. The third book is boring

But the first two are revealing. Especially about the Catholic Church. They played an important role in bringing Hitler to power. The Church preferred Nazism over Godless Communism.

[bobbieinok]

4. Evans was a witness for Lipstadt when Irving sued her over her book Denying the Holocaust

In it she says David Irving denies the Holocaust. At the time of the trial , the Atlantic had a long cover story on the trial and Evans' work in her defense. IIRC, many found it bizarre that basically she and her team had to prove that the Holocaust actually occurred!

He was also an important figure in the Historikerstreit, a fight over how to interpret Germany's acts in WWII.

Evans has extensively studied German women's movements. I heard him give a paper on the topic yrs ago at a small conference in Minneapolis.

[northoftheborder]

5. Night, by Elie Wiesel

"Recounting the evils at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel's enduring classic of Holocaust literature raises questions of continuing significance for all future generations: How could man commit these horrors, and could such an evil ever be repeated?"

Autobiography. First time I've read this. Painful and depressing to read, but determined to finish. More people need to read this.