ABSTRACT

In a sense, Baschwitz's other 1938 book was both a warning and a recommendation. The warning: Hitler was really set on a new war; concessions would not buy ‘peace for our time’, as Chamberlain famously was to say after their Munich meeting. The recommendation: not to overestimate the ‘unstoppable dark forces’ of popular support for the Nazis. More pushback from citizens and legal authorities might still be able to break their spell, he felt.