Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that Hitler's rise was neither a predetermined outcome of German culture nor an unexpected event, but rather a complex interplay of various factors.
Ian Kershaw argues that Adolf Hitler cannot be understood simply as a result of unique German cultural trends or as a random event in history. Instead, his rise to power was influenced by a multitude of factors, both social and political, indicating that historical events often arise from complex circumstances rather than straightforward narratives.
In practice
In a history lecture discussing the rise of totalitarian regimes.
Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.
The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
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