10th anniversary lecture: Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

Professor Sir Richard Evans joins us to discuss his new book, Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich, a biographical study of Hitler's inner circle which offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime.

Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us.

Richard J. Evans is one of the world’s leading historians of modern Germany. From 2008 to 2014 he was Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University, and from 2020 to 2017 President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. His books include Death in Hamburg (winner of the Wolfson History Prize), In Defence of History, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and The Third Reich at War. His book The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, volume 7 of the Penguin History of Europe, was published in 2016. His most recent books are Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (2019) and The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination (2020). In 2012 he was knighted for services to scholarship.

Venue: The Coop Lecture Theatre, MB0312, Minerva Building in the University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool campus.

Talks start at 6.15pm, with refreshments served from 5.45.

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