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 156
... internment and exploitation in the camps : beggars , crimi- nals , scofflaws , drunkards , loafers , vagabonds , Gypsies , and religious sectarians . Additional concentration camps were about to be established , and they were designed ...
... internment and exploitation in the camps : beggars , crimi- nals , scofflaws , drunkards , loafers , vagabonds , Gypsies , and religious sectarians . Additional concentration camps were about to be established , and they were designed ...
Page 288
... in the eastern occupied territories , among them well over 1 million Poles . The concentration camps and ghettos became the third source of forced labor , and will also be discussed in greater detail in the next chapter . Meanwhile , it ...
... in the eastern occupied territories , among them well over 1 million Poles . The concentration camps and ghettos became the third source of forced labor , and will also be discussed in greater detail in the next chapter . Meanwhile , it ...
Page 332
... Concentration Camps . Of these three , Speer best personified the changeover . Originally , Hitler had charged him with choreographing the mass rituals of the Nazi regime and with monumentalizing its project , with license to use ...
... Concentration Camps . Of these three , Speer best personified the changeover . Originally , Hitler had charged him with choreographing the mass rituals of the Nazi regime and with monumentalizing its project , with license to use ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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