Knowra Richard J. Evans Richard J. Evans Richard J. Evans is a British historian of modern Germany, best known for studies of Nazi Germany and for serving as an expert witness in the Irving v. Penguin Books trial.
Modern German history : The study of Germany’s political, social, and cultural development from the late eighteenth century onward. This is the broad historical field in which Evans’s scholarship is situated.
The Coming of the Third Reich : Richard J. Evans’s 2003 history of the political and social conditions behind Hitler’s rise to power. This first volume of Evans’s Third Reich trilogy traces the regime’s emergence.
University of Cambridge : A public research university in Cambridge, England, founded in 1209. Evans held the Regius Professorship of History at Cambridge.
Holocaust denial : The rejection or distortion of the established historical record of the Nazi genocide of European Jews. The trial examined how denial operates through selective quotation and misrepresentation of evidence.
Nazi Germany : The German state under Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship from 1933 to 1945. Evans’s major histories examine the origins, operation, and collapse of this regime.
The Third Reich in Power : Richard J. Evans’s 2005 history of Nazi Germany from the consolidation of dictatorship through wartime expansion. This volume examines how Nazi rule shaped German society and institutions.
University of East Anglia : A public research university in Norwich, England, established in 1963. Evans taught history there before moving to Cambridge.
Irving v Lipstadt : The 2016 British film dramatizing the libel trial between David Irving and Deborah Lipstadt. The film brought the trial, and Evans’s role as an expert witness, to a wider audience.
Holocaust historiography : The study of how historians have documented and interpreted the persecution and murder of European Jews. Evans has written about the evidence and historical methods used to establish the Holocaust.
The Third Reich at War : Richard J. Evans’s 2008 history of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. This final volume follows the regime’s war, mass murder, and defeat.
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