Renowned historian Richard J. Evans questions why so many Germans took part in Nazi crimes, and how they came to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end.

In Hitler’s People, Evans strips away the veneer of legend from the faces of the Third Reich, using a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us. The former Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, author of Wolfson-winner Death in Hamburg and The Pursuit of Power returns to Jewish Book Week with his latest Sunday Times bestseller. In conversation with historian and author Clare Mulley.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.

About the speakers:

Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include Death in Hamburg (winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History), In Hitler’s Shadow, Rituals of Retribution (winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History), In Defense of History, Lying About Hitler, and The Coming of the Third Reich.

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and historian. All her books are under option for TV and film, and widely translated. A regular contributor to TV (BBC’s Rise of the Nazis and Newsnight, Channel 5’s Secret History of WW2, and Adolf & Eva), radio (Radio 4 Today, Woman’s Hour, Great Lives, PM) and podcasts (Spectator, BBC History Extra, Dan Snow’s History Hit etc), and popular public speaker, Clare also writes and reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.