Evans’s fellow historians as well as a broader public will read this work, not quite with pleasure, for there is little joy in this story, but with admiration for the author’s narrative powers. Evans narrates the Reich’s end in gripping fashion as the Allies closed in on Germany. Evans offers a nuanced picture of the lives of Germans, but ultimately, he suggests, the Nazis’ racial ideology thoroughly corrupted German society. Evans gives the Holocaust the centrality it deserves, while also depicting effectively the suffering of Poles and many others under Nazi domination.
What comes across most clearly is the supreme arrogance of the Nazis and the utterly rapacious character of their rule. The account is peppered with insightful anecdotes drawn from diaries, letters and speeches. As in those works, Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third Reich’s history and of the enormous historical literature. from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives, Richard Evans lays bare. Describing the Third Reich from the height of its power to its collapse, Evans concludes the masterful trilogy that began with The Coming of the Third Reich Germany - Third Reich 10 Reichspfennig 1941 (A) Swastika World War II.
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