Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in HistoryThis major work presents a radically new view of the origins of the Nazi slaughter of the Jews. Mayer argues that though Hitler was always viciously anti-Semitic, the genocide was not part of his plan from the start. Instead, it was triggered when the Nazi's massive campaign against Russia began to founder. Mayer places what Hitler called "the Final Solution" in historical context, examining both the prewar political situation in Europe that made it possible, and some analogous, if much less horrific, events in the distant past. The result is an important and provocative new answer to one of the most pressing questions facing historians today: How could such an enormity have come to pass? |
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Page 108
All three tenets - anti - Semitism , anti - Marxism , and eastern expansionism —
were pervaded with antimodernism , and all three furthered the eschatological
momentum of the Nazi movement . Of course , inwardly anti - Semitism may have
...
All three tenets - anti - Semitism , anti - Marxism , and eastern expansionism —
were pervaded with antimodernism , and all three furthered the eschatological
momentum of the Nazi movement . Of course , inwardly anti - Semitism may have
...
Page 179
Paradoxically , for the Jews the secret protocols of the Nazi - Soviet Pact were in
the nature of a partial and disguised blessing . At least one - third of the Jews of
Poland were kept out of German hands , along with such great Jewish ...
Paradoxically , for the Jews the secret protocols of the Nazi - Soviet Pact were in
the nature of a partial and disguised blessing . At least one - third of the Jews of
Poland were kept out of German hands , along with such great Jewish ...
Page 455
In their reading , anticommunism and the call for the conquest of eastern
Lebensraum were at the heart of an ideology designed to both reflect and cement
the collaboration of the new and improbable Nazi elite with the old ruling classes
, a ...
In their reading , anticommunism and the call for the conquest of eastern
Lebensraum were at the heart of an ideology designed to both reflect and cement
the collaboration of the new and improbable Nazi elite with the old ruling classes
, a ...
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Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in History |
| Author | Arno J. Mayer |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1990 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jan 2011 |
| ISBN | 0679728996, 9780679728993 |
| Length | 508 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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