Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
'A Nice Pleasant Youth'
By John Gross
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
Random House, 444 pp., $25.00 (paper)
In 1952, reviewing the first edition of Alan Bullock's biography of Hitler, the historian Lewis Namier began on a note of revulsion: 'Must we talk of Hitler?' But he knew that we have no real choice in the matter: 'We must, however distasteful the subject.' And nearly fifty years later, the answer remains the same.
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