Hatred Will Destroy You: A Review of ‘Hitler’s People’

The Czech survivor Zdének Syrovátka, liberated by the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S. First Army, identifies a former SS camp guard who brutally beat prisoners, on April 14, 1945. Harold M. Roberts, courtesy of Harold Royall/Public Domain

Commentary

In 1828, historian Thomas Macaulay expressed the hope that a future English crisis would be handled by leaders “for whom history has not recorded the long series of human crimes and follies in vain.”