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Johann Chapoutot, Historian of Nazism: “For German Elites, Hitler Was a Redneck at Their Service, a Nobody They Could Control”

Summary by El Pais
Historian Johann Chapoutot (Martigues, France, 47 years old), a professor at the Sorbonne and a leading expert on Nazi Germany, doesn't deny the darkness of the present. But in *Irresponsible* (Alianza), he rejects all fatalism: the return of fascism is not inevitable, just as Hitler's rise to power wasn't. His thesis is that Weimar didn't fall at the ballot box, but rather due to a political decision: a conservative oligarchy relied on the Nazi…

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Johann Chapoutot, Historian of Nazism: “For German Elites, Hitler Was a Redneck at Their Service, a Nobody They Could Control”

Historian Johann Chapoutot (Martigues, France, 47 years old), a professor at the Sorbonne and a leading expert on Nazi Germany, doesn't deny the darkness of the present. But in *Irresponsible* (Alianza), he rejects all fatalism: the return of fascism is not inevitable, just as Hitler's rise to power wasn't. His thesis is that Weimar didn't fall at the ballot box, but rather due to a political decision: a conservative oligarchy relied on the Nazi…

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