![]() ![]() Back in the 1970s, as a newspaper editor, he was criticised for publishing the 'revisionist' work of Ernst Nolte, which attempted to relativise Hitler's crimes against the background of Stalinist barbarity, and for his film Hitler - A Career which tried to reconstruct how Germans perceived Hitler before 1945. In Germany, Joachim Fest is the best-known of these biographers. Who was this man, and why did he do what he did? The shelf-load of biographies published in the last 30 years return no final answer. ![]() Until then, as Sebastian Haffner wrote in his short, matchless book The Meaning of Hitler (1978), we had been living in the Europe which Hitler created for us: the split continent and the mutilated, divided Germany which were the inevitable consequence of his fatal attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941.Īnd yet the Führer lives on in a last impregnable bunker - his own brain. The second was the collapse of Soviet power between 19. The first was the defeat and partition of Germany in 1945. Two seismic upheavals of the European landscape now separate us from this appalling human being. ![]()
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