Category: Books

Review: The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw (2011) Assessment 9 out of 10

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Sir Ian Kershaw notes that continuing to fight on to the bitter end in a war is rare. Casualties spiralled, German military losses in the last 10 months of the war were equal to those in the four years to July 1944, 350,000 German soldiers dying in each month of the final cataclysm. Allied bombing … Continue reading Review: The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw (2011) Assessment 9 out of 10

Review: Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater (2019) Assessment 7 out of 10

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Addresses the questions of whether High Culture, art, music and literature, changed under an authoritarian regime and how Culture was adapted as means of control and influence. Book burnings and cultural exhibitions, “The Degenerate Art” exhibition which toured Germany and “The Eternal Jew” exhibition and film, showed what to dislike. There was a failed search … Continue reading Review: Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater (2019) Assessment 7 out of 10