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Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the 50 key dates of world history.

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Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

Collected, Goering, Notebook, Political, Reich

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex. . . character.

Character, Complex, Contradictory, Goering

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Argument, Arguments, Endless, Goering, Officers, Routine Work

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Consistent, Desire, Ideas, Implying, Past

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Fur, Goering, Hunting, Known, Togas

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

All Things, Appeared, Goering, Men

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.

Capitalist, Clear, Country, Disagree, Numbers, Recovery

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

Contact, Hitler, Social, Tolerate, Too Much

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