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Originally Posted by Mutt
I should read the Hitler book, looks like it's considered the best biography of Hitler, but i don't really understand his conclusion - Hitler may have destroyed the 'old Europe' but his war left Germany in shambles and divided into 2 countries, Central and East Europe swept under the Iron Curtain. And the liberal bourgeois order didn't disappear from Western Europe.
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I thought the same at first with regard to Western Europe 'liberal bourgeois' was probably more of and expression of contempt by this writer?
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I would agree with the 'old Europe' statement -- the sun set on the British Empire
European colonial empires were dissolved too after WW2.