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Hitler: A Biography. By Peter Longerich. Translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pages xiii + 1344. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0190056735.

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Hitler: A Biography. By Peter Longerich. Translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pages xiii + 1344. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0190056735.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2021

Nathan Stoltzfus*
Affiliation:
Florida State University

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2 Langer, The Mind of Hitler, 142–44.

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18 Anthony Ramirez, “Outcry over Use of Hitler Quote in Yearbook,” New York Times, June 18, 1999 (https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/18/nyregion/outcry-over-use-of-hitler-quote-in-yearbook.html); Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, “Kentucky Police Training Quoted Hitler and Urged ‘Ruthless’ Violence,” New York Times, October 31, 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/kentucky-state-police-hitler.html); Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Munich: Eher Verlag, 1943), 186–87, 189.

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20 Caestecker, Frank and Fraser, David, “The Extraterritorial Application of the Nuremberg Laws: Rassenschande and ‘Mixed’ Marriages in European Liberal Democracies,” Journal of the History of International Law 10, no. 1 (2008): 3581CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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22 Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936, 530; Ian Kershaw, “‘Working Towards the Führer’: Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship,” Contemporary European History 2, no. 2 (July 1993): 117.

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34 For what Martin Bormann described as Hitler's “fundamental decisions” dividing intermarried Jews into privileged and nonprivileged categories, see Nuremberg Document 069-PS.

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36 December 6, 1943, entry in Joseph Goebbels, Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels—Sämtliche Fragmente, ed. Elke Fröhlich, part II, vol. 10 (Munich: Saur, 1987–2008).

37 Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936, 178.

38 See also Joachim Neander, “Auschwitz, the ‘Fabrikaktion,’ Rosenstrasse: A Plea for a Change of Perspective in Protest,” in Protest in Hitler's “National Community, ed. Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Meyer-Katkin (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015), 125–42, esp. 132–33, and Appendix 8, 251–54.

39 Nathan Stoltzfus, Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 271; Julie Torrie, “For Their Own Good”: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939–1945 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010), 111.

40 November 2, 1943, entry in Goebbels, Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, part II, vol. 10.

41 Katharina von Kellenbach, “The ‘Legend’ of Women's Resistance in the Rosenstrasse,” in Protest in Hitler's National Community, 106–24.