"The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference."

"The question of 'historical greatness' was usually implicit in the writing of conventional biography — particularly s…"

"Hitler's power was of an extraordinary kind. He did not base his claim to power (except in a most formal sense) on hi…"

"A history of Hitler has to be a history of his power — how he came to get it, what its character was, how he exercise…"

"For the Socialist and Communist left — with only minor differences between them in this regard — Hitler was portrayed…"

"Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man. That the ruinati…"

"If Britain was solidly stable and France not much less so, Germany was more enigmatic. It fitted neatly into neither …"

"The terrible famine of 1932 was still a searing memory. The heavy hand of Stalinist oppression had not receded since …"

"Franco, it is tempting to think, is too peripheral a figure to be ranked as a 'maker of twentieth-century Europe'- ce…"

"The last years before her death on 8 April 2013 were spent in increasing isolation, suffering from the tragic onset o…"