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I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.