He is one of the greatest historical scholars of our time, and his insights into the nature of the Third Reich have changed the way we think about the period.
To read the WW2History.com interview with Sir Ian Kershaw, click on the subject headings on the right.
This interview was conducted in March 2009.
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw
Content featuring Professor Sir Ian Kershaw
BOOKS by Professor Sir Ian Kershaw
- Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
Ian Kershaw - Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis
Ian Kershaw - Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Ian Kershaw - The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Ian Kershaw - Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution
Ian Kershaw - The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
Ian Kershaw
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw
- Why the war started
- Hitler’s expansionist aims
- Hitler and the origins of the war
- Hitler’s aggressive intentions
- Dunkirk
- Invading the Soviet Union
- Hitler's war in the East
- Hitler and the Holocaust
- Why the Nazis didn’t surrender
- Hitler in April 1945
- Single turning point of the war
- Single biggest mistake of the war
- Was Hitler mad
- Best leader of WW2
- Why study WW2
- Why study history