Articles by Christopher R. Browning

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The Suffocation of Democracy
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Oct 2018

25 Oct 2018 – As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.

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Lessons from Hitler’s Rise
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2017

A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. “Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Timely… One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews. “An outstanding study… All the huge and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected…but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster.” —The Guardian (U.K.)

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