Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in HistoryThis highly acclaimed book presents a radically new view of the origins of the Holocaust. Mayer argues that the slaughter of the Jews was not part of Hitler's plan from the start, but came about only when the Nazis' massive campaign aagainst Russia foundered. Illustrated. |
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Page 191
... Łódź - now renamed Litzmannstadt - were among the first to be quarantined in a compact ghetto . To achieve this compression the German authorities moved about 100,000 Jews into two of the most rundown sections of the city . Between mid ...
... Łódź - now renamed Litzmannstadt - were among the first to be quarantined in a compact ghetto . To achieve this compression the German authorities moved about 100,000 Jews into two of the most rundown sections of the city . Between mid ...
Page 391
... Łódź - Poznań railway and by a good surface road to Łódź , thirty - five miles to the southeast . The site also may have been chosen because of the availability of a small abandoned castle with outlying farmhouses and a church , all set ...
... Łódź - Poznań railway and by a good surface road to Łódź , thirty - five miles to the southeast . The site also may have been chosen because of the availability of a small abandoned castle with outlying farmhouses and a church , all set ...
Page 392
... Łódź delivered not Jews but most of the 5,000 Austrian Gypsies who only recently had been deported there , where some of them had died of typhus . Hereafter , however , all the victims were Jews . In the course of less than fifteen ...
... Łódź delivered not Jews but most of the 5,000 Austrian Gypsies who only recently had been deported there , where some of them had died of typhus . Hereafter , however , all the victims were Jews . In the course of less than fifteen ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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