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 337
... death rate is estimated to have exceeded 50 percent . Although the concentration camps were first designed and used to break the opposition within Germany , in time German citizens be- came but a small minority among the internees , and ...
... death rate is estimated to have exceeded 50 percent . Although the concentration camps were first designed and used to break the opposition within Germany , in time German citizens be- came but a small minority among the internees , and ...
Page 367
... death in the morgue next to the crematorium . It seems that both times gas was used . The second time the local executioners probably asphyxiated their victims with the insecticide Zyklon B. Although there may have been some Jews among ...
... death in the morgue next to the crematorium . It seems that both times gas was used . The second time the local executioners probably asphyxiated their victims with the insecticide Zyklon B. Although there may have been some Jews among ...
Page 422
... death struggle of the Nazi Behemoth . Soviet and Polish lands were scorched savagely and became the scene of the ruthless pursuit of real and imagined partisans , the massive impressment and deportation of labor , the wholesale pillage ...
... death struggle of the Nazi Behemoth . Soviet and Polish lands were scorched savagely and became the scene of the ruthless pursuit of real and imagined partisans , the massive impressment and deportation of labor , the wholesale pillage ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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