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But how could the nation of Bach and Goeter, this extraordinary place that could produce music and literature of those sorts?

How could it have allowed a man like Hitler?

And we can explain it.

We can explain it easily in many respects.

You know, we can provide narratives which explain it.

But we still somehow deep down face this extraordinary question of how is it possible for people

to actually do this.

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This Sunday, the 27th of January, is Holocaust Memorial Day.

And in today's episode, we're going to be discussing the Nazi genocide with two expert historians.

Mary Fulbrook is professor of German history at University College London

and she's recently written a book entitled Reckonings, Legacies of Nazi Persecution and The

Quest for Justice.

She discussed some of the book's themes with Richard J Evans, who is Regis Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge

University and himself the author of several works on the Third Reich. The two historians

met up in London a little while back and here's

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