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'Endowed with erudition, deep scholarship, fluent style and a sense of humor, Hi Hitler is a major contribution to our understanding of current memories of the Third Reich and their consequences.' Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide 'Gavriel Rosenfeld's Hi Hitler! is a compelling analysis of the way a broad range of scholars, filmmakers, and writers have addressed and are currently addressing the legacy of Nazism, the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Anyone who wonders how a specifically situated historical event has come to have such broad resonance and meaning today across continents, cultures, religions and nationalities will find this book indispensable.' Deborah Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory 'Gavriel Rosenfeld has tracked the idea of Hitler - in all its revisionist guises - with keen insight, care and spectacular force.' Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins 'An interesting and important book, because it will give many readers - as it did this one - much food for thought. It takes us forward in understanding contemporary processes of confronting Nazism and points to future avenues we need to explore. Few books do that. It is fluidly written ... engaging, well-illustrated and extraordinarily well-informed. It provides a much-needed comparison of memory trends across a number of countries and raises uncomfortable questions about possible processes of trivialization. It deserves a wide readership.' William Niven, German History 'Referencing books, speeches, movies, and essays, Rosenfeld inexorably builds a thoroughly convincing case that something has shifted in both academia and in politics - that the Holocaust's heretofore unquestioned status as the great sin of the twentieth century (and by association, the Nazis' status as the century's greatest villains) is now far from a consensus.' William O'Connor, The Daily Beast 'Rosenfeld's study is important and timely, as well as lucid, engaging and readable.' Anna Katharina Schaffner, Times Literary Supplement

'Endowed with erudition, deep scholarship, fluent style and a sense of humor, Hi Hitler is a major contribution to our understanding of current memories of the Third Reich and their consequences.' Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide 'Gavriel Rosenfeld's Hi Hitler! is a compelling analysis of the way a broad range of scholars, filmmakers, and writers have addressed and are currently addressing the legacy of Nazism, the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Anyone who wonders how a specifically situated historical event has come to have such broad resonance and meaning today across continents, cultures, religions and nationalities will find this book indispensable.' Deborah Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory 'Gavriel Rosenfeld has tracked the idea of Hitler - in all its revisionist guises - with keen insight, care and spectacular force.' Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins 'Are Hitler, the Holocaust and the Nazi past generally becoming normalized, and what does it mean to normalize the past? This is a fascinating, provocative and comparative study that will be of interest to scholars, students and the general public alike.' Bill Niven, author of Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich and Germans as Victims: Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany

Advance praise: 'Endowed with erudition, deep scholarship, fluent style and a sense of humor, Hi Hitler is a major contribution to our understanding of current memories of the Third Reich and their consequences.' Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide Advance praise: 'Gavriel Rosenfeld's Hi Hitler! is a compelling analysis of the way a broad range of scholars, filmmakers, and writers have addressed and are currently addressing the legacy of Nazism, the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Anyone who wonders how a specifically situated historical event has come to have such broad resonance and meaning today across continents, cultures, religions and nationalities will find this book indispensable.' Deborah Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory Advance praise: 'Gavriel Rosenfeld has tracked the idea of Hitler - in all its revisionist guises - with keen insight, care and spectacular force.' Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Advance praise: 'Are Hitler, the Holocaust and the Nazi past generally becoming normalized, and what does it mean to normalize the past? This is a fascinating, provocative and comparative study that will be of interest to scholars, students and the general public alike.' Bill Niven, author of Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich and Germans as Victims: Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany

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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History at Fairfield University, Connecticut. His area of specialization is the history and memory of the Nazi era. He is the author of several books, including Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of visual arts; The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge, 2005); Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000), and the co-edited work, Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (2008). He is also the editor of the forthcoming volume of Jewish alternate histories, 'If Only We Had Died in Egypt!' What Ifs of Jewish History from Abraham to Zionism, also to be published by Cambridge University Press. Rosenfeld is a frequent contributor to the Forward newspaper and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review.

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