A Different Sightline

There may be no greater villain in political history than Adolf Hitler, and possibly none has been the subject of so many historical volumes as he and his Nazis. Perhaps the record is so thorough because the atrocities of his and his sycophants were so extreme and so recent. World War II, with its living record, ended only about 80 years ago. Only 80 years gone by, and seemingly out of memory despite all those books, and now there is a new scholarly book of merit published in 2024 with a different sightline. I have written before about many of the must-read, pre-2024 books, notable of which are: (1) William L. Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” (1960); (2) translated from the German, Volker Ulrich, “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939,” vol. I (2016) and “Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945…