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\nRichard Evans, a Welsh-born historian and Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University, developed an early interest in German history after witnessing post-WWII bomb damage in London. His academic journey led him to study the...\nRichard Evans, a Welsh-born historian and Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University, developed an early interest in German history after witnessing post-WWII bomb damage in London. His academic journey led him to study the roots of Nazism, particularly why the German middle class embraced Hitler. He gained public attention as the lead expert witness in the 2000 libel trial of Holocaust denier David Irving, a case dramatized in the film Denial. Following the trial, Evans wrote a renowned three-volume history of Nazi Germany. In recent years, spurred by new historical material and a documentary project, he authored Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich, a collection of 22 biographies exploring how ordinary, often cultured and respectable middle-class Germans became key figures and perpetrators of Nazi crimes. The book seeks to humanize these individuals—not to excuse them, but to understand how such people could support and carry out horrific acts. Evans invites readers to confront uncomfortable questions about human nature, morality, and complicity.\n
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2025
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