Volume 55, Number 16 · October 23, 2008
The Most Evil Emperor
By Max Hastings
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by Mark Mazower
Penguin, 726 pp., $39.95
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
by Ian Kershaw
International Institute for Holocaust Research/Yale University Press, 394 pp., $35.00
Winston Churchill was frequently criticized during World War II for displaying insufficient interest in Britain's postwar reconstruction. He was obsessively preoccupied with the defeat of the Axis powers. South Africa's prime minister, Jan Smuts, said, 'Winston's mind has a stop in it at the end of the war.' In this, as in so much else, there was a striking contrast with the attitude of Hitler. While the titanic conflict was still unresolved, Germany's leader committed enormous economic, political, and military effort to the fulfillment of his social and racial ambitions for a Greater Germany.
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