Just back from Munich, the distinguished historian tells Brendan Walsh about his fascination with a country thrown into confusion about its attitude to refugees His career has given Ian Kershaw a unique vantage point from which to reflect on the drama of modern Germany and an increasingly bitter debate over its response to Europe’s migrant crisis. After 30 years in which his work has focused chiefly on the Nazi period, he has widened the lens with the publication of To Hell and Back, the first of a monumental two-volume history of Europe in the twentieth century. Last week he was in Munich to speak at the sensitive launch of an academic edition of Mein Kampf, previously banned from publication. I ask him whether he thought Germany’s history was colouring its people’s at