![]() ![]() Evans came to prominence in 2000 as a key witness for the defense team in the David Irving trial in London, where he convincingly demonstrated the systematic distortions, adding up to Holocaust denial, in Irving’s work.Ĭlearly, Evans has little patience for arguments tending to relativize Nazi crimes, whether advanced by revisionist historians or by slippery German politicians. The time is therefore opportune for someone once again to set the record straight about Nazi Germany This, indeed, appears to have been the aim of Richard Evans, a professor of history at Cambridge who has just released the first of three projected volumes on the Third Reich. ![]() ![]() Pushed along by sensational books on subjects like the postwar expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe, this unattractive revisionism burst into the open during the lead-up to the Iraq war, when some German intellectuals and political figures began conflating their opposition to Bush-administration policy with the supposed victimization of their own country by Allied bombing during World War II. In the last several years, a new version of 20th-century history has been gathering momentum in Germany one in which Germans at last receive their own share of the contemporary world’s most precious moral commodity: victimhood. ![]()
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