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Hitler and generals [Image: [Image: Walter Frentz Archive]
Hitler and generals [Image: Walter Frentz Archive]

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Listen to the 2005 Open University Lecture, in which Ian Kershaw, Professor of Modern History at Sheffield University, examines Hitler's place in history

You can download the lecture as an mp3 or read the transcipt online.

MP3 of the lecture
We've broken the lecture up into 3 mp3 files. To download one of these, right-click on the following link, and click "Save target as" from the menu that appears. Then choose whereabouts you'd like the file to be saved on your computer.

  • introduction.mp3 : introduction to the lecture and lecturer
    (0.4MB, approx 1 minute over a modem)
  • lecture.mp3: the lecture itself
    (11.1MB, appox 30 minutes over a modem)
  • questions.mp3: question and answers session at the end of the lecture
    (2.2MB, approx 6 minutes over a modem)

Online Transcript
You can also read a transcript of the lecture, spread over a number of web pages.

Content last updated: 25/04/2005

 

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