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Because of their enormous world-historical impact, Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich are supremely important to understanding the twentieth century and the development of Western civilization. These are also supremely controversial and difficult topics. Indeed, Hitler is almost universally considered to have been the most evil man to have ever lived. If, as Éric Zemmour [2] and Élie Barnavi [3] have noted, commemoration of the Shoah has replaced Christianity as the West’s civil religion, then Hitler very much plays the role of Satan. No surprise then that books and documentaries on Hitler and the Third Reich continue to be extremely popular: In a disenchanted age, looking upon Hitler, if only by his “evil,” is both fascinating and...