Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in HistoryThis major work presents a radically new view of the origins of the Nazi slaughter of the Jews. Mayer argues that though Hitler was always viciously anti-Semitic, the genocide was not part of his plan from the start. Instead, it was triggered when the Nazi's massive campaign against Russia began to founder. Mayer places what Hitler called "the Final Solution" in historical context, examining both the prewar political situation in Europe that made it possible, and some analogous, if much less horrific, events in the distant past. The result is an important and provocative new answer to one of the most pressing questions facing historians today: How could such an enormity have come to pass? |
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... pogrom of November 9-10 , 1938 , as " the night of broken glass , " Nazi propagandists meant to fix attention on this ... pogroms in late tsarist Russia . Accordingly , the Jews were totally isolated and vulnera- ble . They were the ...
... pogrom of November 9-10 , 1938 , as " the night of broken glass , " Nazi propagandists meant to fix attention on this ... pogroms in late tsarist Russia . Accordingly , the Jews were totally isolated and vulnera- ble . They were the ...
Page 257
... pogroms immediately following the arrival of German troops . But these instant and unpremeditated pogroms , reminiscent of those attending the conquest of Poland in September 1939 , were the work of local vigilantes , not of the ...
... pogroms immediately following the arrival of German troops . But these instant and unpremeditated pogroms , reminiscent of those attending the conquest of Poland in September 1939 , were the work of local vigilantes , not of the ...
Page 275
... pogroms of June and July : 10,000 Jews were slaughtered in Kovno and 25,000 in Vilna , reducing the Jewish com- munity of each city to between 15,000 and 20,000 . The mass execu- tions in the Rumbuli Forest outside Riga , in the Ponary ...
... pogroms of June and July : 10,000 Jews were slaughtered in Kovno and 25,000 in Vilna , reducing the Jewish com- munity of each city to between 15,000 and 20,000 . The mass execu- tions in the Rumbuli Forest outside Riga , in the Ponary ...
Contents
THE GOLDEN AGE | 39 |
THE EAST EUROPEAN RIMLAND | 64 |
THE SYNCRETISM OF MEIN KAMPF | 90 |
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