Volume 3, Number 10 · December 31, 1964

How Did it Happen?

By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Burden of Guilt
by Hannah Vogt

Oxford, 318 pp., $6.00

Nazi Propaganda
by Z.A.B. Zeman

Oxford, 226 pp., $7.00

The Gestapo
by Jacques Delarue

Morrow, 384 pp., $6.95

The continuing preoccupation with National Socialism exemplified by the books listed above is entirely justified. The question 'How did it happen?', with its corollary 'Can it happen again?', is one which concerns us all. The more difficult problem is methodological: in other words, what form or forms of analysis are best calculated to help us 'place' National Socialism as a historical phenomenon in the context of the twentieth century.



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