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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 60
Page 125
... prisoners of the Third Reich , and all of them were arrested for being left - wing politicians , lawyers , or literati . Germany's jails were not equipped to accommodate such a large flood of prisoners . In the rush of events the ...
... prisoners of the Third Reich , and all of them were arrested for being left - wing politicians , lawyers , or literati . Germany's jails were not equipped to accommodate such a large flood of prisoners . In the rush of events the ...
Page 252
... prisoners of war was part of this rising fury . It was , of course , generated by the nonmilitary causes and end purposes of Barbarossa . When planning their campaign Hitler's generals had been too ideologically intoxicated and self ...
... prisoners of war was part of this rising fury . It was , of course , generated by the nonmilitary causes and end purposes of Barbarossa . When planning their campaign Hitler's generals had been too ideologically intoxicated and self ...
Page 355
... prisoners of war and a rapidly growing number of Polish political prisoners . By the end of 1939 Stutthof , the detention camp twenty - one miles east of Danzig , held about 3,500 prisoners . Because of bureaucratic infighting it was ...
... prisoners of war and a rapidly growing number of Polish political prisoners . By the end of 1939 Stutthof , the detention camp twenty - one miles east of Danzig , held about 3,500 prisoners . Because of bureaucratic infighting it was ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allies anti-Jewish anti-Semitism Army Group Auschwitz Barbarossa battle became Bełżec Berlin Bolshevik bolshevism capture Chełmno chief cities civil civilians collaborators command commissars Communist concentration camps conquest conservative crusade cultural deported drive early east east-central eastern campaign eastern front economic Einsatzgruppen emigration enemy Europe's European evacuated extermination fascist fighting forced labor foreign France führer German ghetto Goebbels Göring Heydrich Himmler Hitler Horthy Hungarian Hungary ideological inmates Jewish communities Jewish population Jewry Judeobolshevism Judeocide Judeophobia July Kiev killed late leaders Lebensraum Łódź Lublin Majdanek major March mass massacre military million Moscow murder Nazi Germany Nazi Germany's number of Jews occupied officers Operation partisans party percent pogroms Pohl Poland police Polish political prisoners radical Red Army resettlement RSHA Rumania Sobibór social Socialists soldiers Soviet Russia Soviet Union Stalin territories Third Reich Thirty Years War tion troops Ukraine victims Waffen-SS Warsaw Warthegau Wehrmacht western workers