Reviews

One hundred years after the birth of Hitler, the misdeeds of the Third Reich are still a heavy burden for contemporary Germans to bear. Recently, several influential German historians have tried to free the German conscience from guilt about the Nazi past. This scholarly analysis carefully dissects these revisionist writings. Some of the revisionist ideas--that Auschwitz was not unique in history and that the German army was only honorably defending the state against the Bolshevik hordes--are firmly rejected by Evans, an English historian. All nations must face up to their past, he writes, and the Germans are no exception. An important, well-documented study.-- Ian Wallace, Food Research Centre Lib., St. Hyacinthe, Quebec