Word: mommsen
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While unlikely to revolutionize modern understanding of the Third Reich, Goebbels' diaries are certain to prove of great historical interest. "After 1945, people liked to think that Hitler himself was the bearer of guilt for everything," says History Professor Hans Mommsen of the University of the Ruhr in Bochum. "Books like these let us look at the period more matter-of- factly." And offer some insights into the frighteningly matter-of-fact ways in which the Fuhrer's subordinates worked...