Richard J. Evans is a historian of modern Germany. He has served as Regius professor of history at the University of Cambridge; president of Wolfson College, Cambridge; and provost of Gresham College in the City of London. His most recent book is Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich.
Popular accounts of Nazism often claim that Hitler rose to power democratically. But, historian Richard J. Evans argues, German fascism relied on armed militias, made up of disaffected veterans inspired by antisemitism, to crush communists and socialists.
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.