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? |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 63
Page 14
... ghetto walls lived on tolerable rations . Similarly , in concentration and work camps the ill - treatment of Jews exceeded that of most , if not all , other groups . In both ghettos and camps the Nazis willfully decimated Jews by ...
... ghetto walls lived on tolerable rations . Similarly , in concentration and work camps the ill - treatment of Jews exceeded that of most , if not all , other groups . In both ghettos and camps the Nazis willfully decimated Jews by ...
Page 393
... ghetto , as in virtually all other Jewish ghettos , there was a strong disposition to disbelieve the rumors and reports about the Nazi butchery , which was so totally beyond the bounds of common morality and historical experience as to ...
... ghetto , as in virtually all other Jewish ghettos , there was a strong disposition to disbelieve the rumors and reports about the Nazi butchery , which was so totally beyond the bounds of common morality and historical experience as to ...
Page 401
... ghettos . There were still " 87,100 Jews in the Litzmannstadt [ Łódź ] ghetto , 83,133 of them formerly of Polish ... Ghettos [ rump - ghettos ] " : 37,000 in Cracow ; 29,400 in Radom ; 20,000 in Lublin ; 50,000 in Warsaw ; 161,415 in ...
... ghettos . There were still " 87,100 Jews in the Litzmannstadt [ Łódź ] ghetto , 83,133 of them formerly of Polish ... Ghettos [ rump - ghettos ] " : 37,000 in Cracow ; 29,400 in Radom ; 20,000 in Lublin ; 50,000 in Warsaw ; 161,415 in ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allies anti-Jewish anti-Semitism Army Group Auschwitz Barbarossa became Bełżec Berlin Bolshevik bolshevism capture Chełmno chief cities civil civilians collaboration command commissars Communist concentration camps conquest conservative crusade cultural deported drive early east east-central eastern campaign eastern front economic Einsatzgruppen emigration enemy Europe's European extermination fascist fighting forced labor foreign France führer German ghetto Goebbels Göring Heydrich Himmler Hitler Horthy Hungarian Hungary ideological inmates Jewish communities Jewish population Jewry Judeobolshevism Judeocide Judeophobia July Kiev killed late leaders Lebensraum Łódź Lublin Majdanek major March mass murder massacre military million Moscow Nazi Germany Nazi Germany's Nazi regime number of Jews occupied officers Operation partisans party percent pogroms Pohl Poland police Polish political prisoners radical Red Army resettlement RSHA Rumania Sobibór social Socialists soldiers Soviet Russia Soviet Union Stalin territories Third Reich Thirty Years War tion troops Ukraine victims Waffen-SS Warsaw Warthegau Wehrmacht western workers