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 94
... political and systematic anti - Semitism went hand in hand with the transformation of the new conservatism into revolutionary counter- revolutionism . Early in his political career Hitler discovered himself to be " a revolutionary ...
... political and systematic anti - Semitism went hand in hand with the transformation of the new conservatism into revolutionary counter- revolutionism . Early in his political career Hitler discovered himself to be " a revolutionary ...
Page 97
... political consequence than the writings of the right - wing paralogi- cians of the late nineteenth century . Almost from the very beginning the Nazi discourse could neither be read nor heard in and for itself . Its maxims and watchwords ...
... political consequence than the writings of the right - wing paralogi- cians of the late nineteenth century . Almost from the very beginning the Nazi discourse could neither be read nor heard in and for itself . Its maxims and watchwords ...
Page 119
... political strategy in a statement giving the crux of nazism's political formula . He boasted that instead of fighting a defensive campaign pervaded with " bourgeois civility and faintheartedness " he was " attacking on a broad front ...
... political strategy in a statement giving the crux of nazism's political formula . He boasted that instead of fighting a defensive campaign pervaded with " bourgeois civility and faintheartedness " he was " attacking on a broad front ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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