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 34
... addition to setting his sights on eastern Europe , had forced his own anointment before taking the cross to the Holy Land . For Hitler to preach a crusade against the Bolshevik regime and ideology was not to mask but to sacralize his ...
... addition to setting his sights on eastern Europe , had forced his own anointment before taking the cross to the Holy Land . For Hitler to preach a crusade against the Bolshevik regime and ideology was not to mask but to sacralize his ...
Page 82
... addition to tightening their control of the state , again became stridently nationalist and anti - Communist in their own right . This fascist suffusion of the old order was a function of the logic of the internal divisions and ...
... addition to tightening their control of the state , again became stridently nationalist and anti - Communist in their own right . This fascist suffusion of the old order was a function of the logic of the internal divisions and ...
Page 356
... addition , he asked that a squad of hardened criminals be brought in from Sachsenhausen to help with the policing . While the first thirty serial numbers of Auschwitz were assigned to these Ger- man " asocials , " the next 728 numbers ...
... addition , he asked that a squad of hardened criminals be brought in from Sachsenhausen to help with the policing . While the first thirty serial numbers of Auschwitz were assigned to these Ger- man " asocials , " the next 728 numbers ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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