What took place in Germany between 1933 and 1945 is not a subject that lacks historical study. Books about the Third Reich, Hitler, nazism and the Holocaust continue to be produced on an industrial scale. And rare is the TV schedule that doesn’t include at least one documentary devoted to one of the above. Beyond that, the period remains the ultimate moral touchstone for any number of contemporary political debates.
But if there is one element of that era that has been relatively neglected, it is, for obvious reasons, the suffering of the German people. In recent years there has been a movement among some German historians to redress the balance and, if not exactly portray the Germans as victims, show the scale of immiseration they endured in the final stages of the war.
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