Richard J. Evans: The legacy of the Third Reich raises in the most acute form the possibilities and consequences of the human hatred and destructiveness that exist, if only in a small way, within all of us. It demonstrates with terrible clarity the ultimate potential consequences of racism, militarism and authoritarianism. It shows what can happen if some people are treated as less human than others. It poses in the most extreme possible form the moral dilemmas we all face at one time or another in our lives, of conformity or resistance, action or inaction in the particular situations with which we are confronted. That is why the Third Reich will not go away, but continues to command the attention of thinking people throughout the world long after it has passed into history.-- From the closing paragraph to The Third Reich at War, the final book in his trilogy including The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power.
