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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
Nathan Stoltzfus*
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Florida State University
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Central European History , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 516 - 527
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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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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.

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