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The Unwritten Order: Hitler´s Role in the Final Solution
Peter Longerich
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Description for The Unwritten Order: Hitler´s Role in the Final Solution
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. To reconstruct Hitler's central role in the Final Solution represents a particular challenge. Hitler treated the murder of the Jews as a matter of the utmost secrecy and was careful wherever possible not to leave behind any written orders. Wherever his instructions on this matter are recorded he has used codified language. He kept away from ... Read more
The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. To reconstruct Hitler's central role in the Final Solution represents a particular challenge. Hitler treated the murder of the Jews as a matter of the utmost secrecy and was careful wherever possible not to leave behind any written orders. Wherever his instructions on this matter are recorded he has used codified language. He kept away from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750968492
SKU
V9780750968492
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About Peter Longerich
Peter Longerich is former Director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and 20th-century history. He was an expert witness in the celebrated trial between David Irving and Deborah Lipstadt/Penguin Books, his role to demonstrate that the murder of millions of Jews was conducted on Hitler s orders. He is the author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.
Reviews for The Unwritten Order: Hitler´s Role in the Final Solution
Peter Longerich is one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust. Ian Kershaw