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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?

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…moreThe 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.(less)

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by William L. Shirer

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