Deserves more views. A wonderfully concise overview.

Back in my Biker days I frequented a popular California Biker Bar. Marie, one of the owners, was a little girl in Nazi Germany during the war and saw it all first hand. When I asked he why the people swept him into power she told me it was because he told them exactly what they wanted to hear.

Thank God for Richard Evans, there must be thousands of books and documents we don’t have to read because he has read them and given us a reliable assessment of their role in our current understanding of history

Prof. Evans starts by saying there will be four lectures in this series. The second one is apparently "Hitler's Victories, 1939-41". Are the third and fourth lectures available as well?

Such an amazing lecture. The resolution could have been slightly better than 240. 🤣

Why did he choose the swastika? Was that not a company logo before hitler took it as his brand sign?

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If this doesn’t get me an A, I don’t know what will

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Hitler didn’t start WW2; he just invaded Poland - it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany. Hitler wanted to avoid war with Britain, and he simply miscalculated the British response to his invasion of Poland. Oops!

M No😊.

Notice the antisemitic slur against Professor Lewis Napier of Cambridge, Evans says that Taylor was imbued with an "undyiing hatred of Germany "by Napier, who supposedly "hated all things German" because he was Jewish, This is extremely unlikely. Germany was a country that was greatly respected by Jews, both inside Germany and in other countries, German philosophy , poetry . science and scholarship were revered by Jews through the Jewish world. Of course Jews everywhere were shocked and saddened when the overtly antisemitic Hitler took power in 1933, But few Jews anywhere in the world blamed the entire German people for the rise of Hitler. Germany as a nation continued to be respected by most Jews, Many considered the rise of Hitler was a temporary aberration, and that he would soon be overthrown and German democracy restored. Some even thought that the Nazis antisemitism was a rhetorical ploy to when the applause of theignorant, unwashed German poor, and that Hitler wouls ultimately make peace with the Jews, as earlier German and Austrian Jew-baiting politicians had done, It is thus extremely unlikely that Professor Napier had an undying hatred of all things German, or much the less that he transmitted such attitutudes to A.J. Taylor.