Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis.(Book Review)

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis. By Ian Kershaw. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. xlvi, 1115. $35.00.)

This is the second volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler, which represents the culmination of years of archival research, formidable contributions to the scholarship on the Third Reich, and fascination with the relationship between Hitler's charismatic leadership and German society. Having dealt exclusively with the subject of popular consent in the Third Reich during the 1970s and early 1980s, Kershaw has since turned to the Fuhrer himself. Denying that he is resurrecting the "great man" theory of history or exculpating the many who …