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Is this book biased? Is it all emotional and tells you how evil Hitler was every second or does it simply deliver the facts?
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Tim
I just finished this book and while emotions are present and Hitler is labeled evil (kind of hard to discuss him without stating the truth) it does a very good job of presenting facts. It is also difficult to write on this topic without being biased, especially since the author lived through the events. There are positives of the Nazi government that are described in the pages and the negatives are not harped upon ad nauseum to the point of boredom. Is that what you mean by biased?
It seems daunting to get through the whole book, but it is worth it. One of the better Histories of WWII and Hitler I have read.
It seems daunting to get through the whole book, but it is worth it. One of the better Histories of WWII and Hitler I have read.
Goodi
The narration is dry and objective for the most part but there are places where emotions bleed through and the author's contempt for Hitler and Nazism bleeds over into contempt for the German people themselves.
It is very biased in the sense that the author makes zero attempt to empathize with the German position at any point and deliberately omits or downplays context which the allies or the USSR would rather people not remember.
It is very biased in the sense that the author makes zero attempt to empathize with the German position at any point and deliberately omits or downplays context which the allies or the USSR would rather people not remember.
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