Hitler y las teorías de la conspiración

The idea that nothing happens by chance, that everything is subject to the behind-the-scenes machinations of a select group of people is as old as history itself. However, today we are experiencing a rise in conspiracy theories and, among them, revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich have become more popular than any other subject because of supposedly newly discovered evidence and new angles of theory. investigation. Richard Evans, renowned historian of the Third Reich, chooses five of the most enduring conspiracy theories about the Nazi period and analyzes them rigorously: the alleged conspiracy of the Jews to undermine civilization according to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the myth of ' dagger in the back »of socialists and Jews to the German army in the defeat of the First World War, the burning of the Reichstag caused by the Nazis to take power, the mysterious flight of Rudolf Hess to the United Kingdom in 1941 with the aim of negotiating peace and, finally, the eternal rumor that Hitler escaped from the bunker in 1945 and lived the rest of his days in South America. These theories have refused to die in the face of repeated attempts to discredit them, so Evans investigates their origins and the causes of their persistence to show that the conscious exploitation of myths and lies for political ends does not turn out to be a creation of the century. XXI.