Dagmar Herzog doesn't much care for A.N. Wilson's skinny book on Hitler, and finds his "final verdict" on Hitler to be unsatisfying.
http://tinyurl.com/6vxbmm2 Also today in the NY Times, Timothy Snyder, author of
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, reviews
The Auschwitz Volunteer, the just published reports of a Polish patriot and underground member who volunteered to get into the infamous camp.
http://tinyurl.com/6r4saul The patriot, Witold Pilecki, was executed by the Communists in 1948 and his papers suppressed. Snyder recently reviewed
The Taste of War, Lizzie Collingham's book about the relationship between food and World War II.
http://tinyurl.com/7dg4anl
The more scholars look at the sprawling subject of World War II the more they find complex factors at play. As to the puzzle of how supposedly civilized people could be reduced to savagery, the Hitler Solution just isn't the final word any more. So maybe the skinny on Hitler ought to be skinny.
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