Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly

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Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. Whil

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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays br