Johann Chapoutot teaches Contemporary History at the Sorbonne, Paris. He is the author of The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi (Belknap Press, 2018) and Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe’s Classical Past (University of California Press, 2016). Steven Rendall has translated ninety-six books from French and German, four of which have won major translation prizes. His translations for Europa Editions include Disturbance by Philippe Lançon (2019) and The Tyranny of Algorithms by Miguel Benasayag (2021). He is professor emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He lives in France.
Chapoutot is one of the most gifted European historians of his generation. * Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny * Johann Chapoutot is one of the great historians of Nazism. Time and again, his work has shown that the Third Reich was not an accidental aberration of history. * France Culture * A fascinating essay about the second life of Reinhard Hoehn-from one of the Third Reich's most brilliant legal minds to the founder of Germany's leading post-war business school. * Le Figaro Magazine *