History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.