The Nazi Mind

A fascinating study offering new insights into the psychological forces driving the Nazis - essential reading for anyone seeking answers to the haunting question of how and why Germany became consumed by Hitler’s evil.

Julia Boyd, author of A Village in the Third Reich

I will recommend to everyone . . . superbly researched and structured. I just wish it was coming out before November 5. Reading how Hitler warped and won over the German people, it is impossible not to see and feel constant resonances with so many of the styles, strategies and tactics adopted by Donald Trump

Alastair Campbell, co-host of The Rest is Politics

The Nazi Mind recounts one by one the chief ways in which Nazism attracted and held its many millions of followers. It is not just an unsparing, detailed reminder of the horrors of the past, based on decades of exhaustive research, but, unmistakably, a challenge to us to check our own no-longer-so-complacent twenty-first century consciences and act accordingly.

Frederick Taylor, author of 1939: A People's History

A chilling analysis of a mind perverted by relativism, delusion, cravenness, amorality and downright evil

Allan Mallinson, author of The Shape of Battle

At once frightening and scholarly, urgent and profoundly necessary. Here is history as a flashlight illuminating the darker hinterlands of human nature. In excavating deep beneath the surface of familiar history – exploring rich, unexpected sources - Rees shows us that the reign of the Nazis is not a story of monsters, but much more terribly of recognisable humanity. A book very much for our time, and all times

Sinclair McKay, author of Berlin and Dresden

Chilling, brilliantly researched . . . only Laurence Rees could have written this book

Keith Lowe, author of Naples 1944

Compulsive reading . . . rarely have the tormented questions that accumulate around the conduct of the Third Reich been subjected to such a baleful, brilliant, modern and revelatory interrogation

Independent

Rees, an expert on the Nazi period, focuses on recalling its hideous highlights

Sunday Times

Rees is uniquely placed to look at this cautionary tale through a fresh lens . . . This is a brilliant piece of work: learned, compelling and frankly terrifying

James Holland, Telegraph

Impeccable history combined with psychology explains how the Nazis’ crimes were made possible. Rees’ conclusions are spot on for our age, particularly his comments on conspiracy theories, which have become so turbocharged in this new era of social media.

Paul Phillips, OBE, Joint President of the Holocaust Educational Trust

Meticulously researched, brilliantly written and passionately argued

Ian Hughes, Irish Times

Superb… invaluable

Christopher Hart, Daily Mail

Why were individuals, often from cultured and well-educated backgrounds, prepared to commit mass atrocities, culminating in genocide? This disturbing book is timely, relevant and important.

Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler