Ian Kershaw Quotes

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Sir Ian Kershaw (born 29 April 1943) is a British historian and retired University of Sheffield professor. He is a specialist in the study of Nazi Germany and a biographer of Adolf Hitler.

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Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man.

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis (2000)

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945 (1983)

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about.

Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945 (1983)

A history of Hitler has to be a history of his power — how he came to get it, what its character was, how he exercised it, why he was allowed to expand it to break all institutional barriers, why resistance to that power was so feeble. But these are questions to be directed at German society, not just at Hitler.

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian Kershaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.