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Radio 3,03 Mar 2016,45 mins

Botticelli Reimagined, A New Biography of Hitler

Free Thinking

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As a best-selling German biography of Hitler is published in English Anne McElvoy explores the way German historians view Hitler now talking to Volker Ullrich and historian Richard J Evans from the University of Cambridge. New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher reviews Botticelli Reimagined at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Botticelli Reimagined runs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 5 March - 3 July 2016. Hitler by Volker Ullrich is now published in English. Catherine Fletcher is the author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici which is published in April.

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