Mayer Arno - Why Did The Heavens Not Darken? The " Final Solution" In History - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question which is much debated among historians today. In doing so he provides one of the most thorough and convincing explanations of how the genocidecame about in Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? which provoked widespread interest and controversywhen first published. Mayer demonstrates that while the Nazis anti - Semitism was always virulent it did not becomegenocidal until well into the Second World War when the failure of their massive all - or - nothingcampaign against Russia triggered the Final Solution. He details the steps leading up to thisenormity showing how the institutional and ideological frameworks that made it possible evolved and how both related to the debacle in the Eastern theater. In this way the Judeocide is placedwithin the larger context of European history showing how similar holy causes in the past havetriggered analogous if far less cataclysmic infamies.
Title: Why Did The Heavens Not Darken? The " Final Solution" In History
Author(s): Mayer Arno
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677771
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 8/21/2012
Series: Verso World History
Category: Jewish Studies