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 43
at the outset the anti - Semitic assault of the Nazis was directed against the
Jewish community in Germany , it is ... 5 million Jews respectively , had by far the
largest Jewish communities in Europe , Germany had the most sizable Jewish ...
at the outset the anti - Semitic assault of the Nazis was directed against the
Jewish community in Germany , it is ... 5 million Jews respectively , had by far the
largest Jewish communities in Europe , Germany had the most sizable Jewish ...
Page 59
Over 95 percent spoke Yiddish and lived in cloistered communities whose
organic culture was half religious and half secular . Capitalist modernization
began to erode the economic viability and cultural self - containment of these
communities ...
Over 95 percent spoke Yiddish and lived in cloistered communities whose
organic culture was half religious and half secular . Capitalist modernization
began to erode the economic viability and cultural self - containment of these
communities ...
Page 380
Between December 1941 and July 1942 the Jewish communities of a host of
cities which had been captured before the first retreat were ravaged with fire and
sword : Riga , Minsk , Kharkov , Simferopol , Kerch , and Pyatigorsk . Certainly in
...
Between December 1941 and July 1942 the Jewish communities of a host of
cities which had been captured before the first retreat were ravaged with fire and
sword : Riga , Minsk , Kharkov , Simferopol , Kerch , and Pyatigorsk . Certainly in
...
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Contents
THE GOLDEN | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in History |
| Authors | Arno J. Mayer, Mayer. Arno J. |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0394571541, 9780394571546 |
| Length | 492 pages |
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