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Book Description on Time “The scope of the literature on Nazism is so vast that even experts have difficulty coping. It is clear that students specializing in modern German history are often unable to assimilate the complex historiography of Nazism and follow the interpretive debates that often take place in the pages of academic German journals or in scholarly monographs. I started from this idea while writing my book. It therefore provides no account of the development of historiography and no history, so to speak, of the history of Nazism. On the contrary, my book is an attempt to examine the nature of a series of central interpretive problems in relation to the period of the Dictatorship that historians of Nazi Germany face today.” Ian Kershaw This book in your hands is a work that goes beyond the factual historiography hitherto written on Nazism; The book does not neglect the historiography of Germany's World War II. It focuses on the historiographical debates about Nazism from its defeat in World War II until today. From classical historiography focusing on the cult of leadership and Hitler biographies to East German historiography focusing on class-oriented reading; A deep narrative is presented, consisting of the writings of German historians in particular and all historians writing on Nazism in general, up to the point where historiography came after the unification of the two Germanys... (From the Promotional Bulletin)