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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... eastern campaign exploded as an absolute or total war , to be fought without restraint in pursuit of unlimited secular as well as doctrinal objectives . From the outset it was conceived and planned not only as a blitzkrieg to smash the ...
... eastern campaign exploded as an absolute or total war , to be fought without restraint in pursuit of unlimited secular as well as doctrinal objectives . From the outset it was conceived and planned not only as a blitzkrieg to smash the ...
Page 207
... eastern Poland ; and Vitebsk , Minsk , Kiev , Berdichev , and Odessa inside the pre - 1939 borders of Russia . But the campaign against Soviet Russia was not an ordinary mili- tary operation . It was exceptionally destructive less ...
... eastern Poland ; and Vitebsk , Minsk , Kiev , Berdichev , and Odessa inside the pre - 1939 borders of Russia . But the campaign against Soviet Russia was not an ordinary mili- tary operation . It was exceptionally destructive less ...
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... war be set apart and subjected to " special measures . " Beyond its " purely military mission , " the eastern campaign had " political objectives , which are to protect the German nation from Bolshevik agitators and to take quick and ...
... war be set apart and subjected to " special measures . " Beyond its " purely military mission , " the eastern campaign had " political objectives , which are to protect the German nation from Bolshevik agitators and to take quick and ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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