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 362
... death at Auschwitz . It also worsened the epidemic which ravaged Auschwitz , especially Birkenau , in the summer of ... death . In sum , selection for almost certain and instant death was implicit in the very decision to send Jews ...
... death at Auschwitz . It also worsened the epidemic which ravaged Auschwitz , especially Birkenau , in the summer of ... death . In sum , selection for almost certain and instant death was implicit in the very decision to send Jews ...
Page 367
... death in the morgue next to the crematorium . It seems that both times gas was used . The second time the local executioners probably asphyxiated their victims with the insecticide Zyklon B. Although there may have been some Jews among ...
... death in the morgue next to the crematorium . It seems that both times gas was used . The second time the local executioners probably asphyxiated their victims with the insecticide Zyklon B. Although there may have been some Jews among ...
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... death , their corpses burned on pyres . How many were gassed during the second half of 1942 is difficult to say . It should be remembered , though , that at this time only the two improvised gas chambers - Bunker I and Bunker II — were ...
... death , their corpses burned on pyres . How many were gassed during the second half of 1942 is difficult to say . It should be remembered , though , that at this time only the two improvised gas chambers - Bunker I and Bunker II — were ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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