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 96
... nazism was passéist . Its projected millennium was furnished with symbolic bric - a - brac culled from Germany's remote ages . The Nazi vision of the present and future was essentially paro- chial , untouched by universal criteria of ...
... nazism was passéist . Its projected millennium was furnished with symbolic bric - a - brac culled from Germany's remote ages . The Nazi vision of the present and future was essentially paro- chial , untouched by universal criteria of ...
Page 108
... nazism were many and complex . People rallied to a syncretic creed of ultrana- tionalism , social Darwinism , anti - Marxism , antibolshevism , and anti- Semitism , as well as to a party program calling for the revision of Versailles ...
... nazism were many and complex . People rallied to a syncretic creed of ultrana- tionalism , social Darwinism , anti - Marxism , antibolshevism , and anti- Semitism , as well as to a party program calling for the revision of Versailles ...
Page 143
... nazism . Himmler and Heydrich forged and offered a police and security force suitable for this purpose . The SS , unlike the SA , had few populist impulses of its own , and there was nothing spontaneous , improvised , or undisciplined ...
... nazism . Himmler and Heydrich forged and offered a police and security force suitable for this purpose . The SS , unlike the SA , had few populist impulses of its own , and there was nothing spontaneous , improvised , or undisciplined ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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