Um there's a book called Hitler's People I think it's called um by Richard Evans that I'm reach reading also which is about how it came to be that the Holocaust happened in Germany and it's kind of like a if anybody out there read uh Gold Hagen's uh Hitler's willing executioners which is very
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-tapper.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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