Daily: Hitler’s long shadow

Why does Hitler still cast a shadow on our politics? How do you re-examine the Nazis’ record without inadvertently fuelling Holocaust denial? Historian Prof. Frank McDonough, author of new book The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, explains why we still don’t understand the enormity of the Third Reich’s crimes, why the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg was a myth generated for home consumption, and why a Britain obsessed with the War really does need another book about Hitler. 

• “Hitler still casts a long shadow over the present. The Third Reich is a lesson on how democracy can be destroyed from within.”
• “People say, don’t we know enough about the Third Reich already? And the answer is no, far from it.”
• “There’s an old saying: The Russians gave the blood. The Americans gave the money. And Churchill gave the speeches.”
• “We in Britain badly need a grown-up attitude understanding of the Second World War as an alliance, not as Britain standing alone.”

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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