kathykekmrs's review against another edition
3.0
This was an historian's take on the materials available to read on the Holocaust. Now keep in mind that this was published in 1996 and there has been more research done in the last twenty years. More archives have been opened and more diaries have been discovered. Most survivors are no longer alive so first hand accounts are slim. Just about every perpetrator was executed so their stories have never been told. Clendinnen is concerned about that fact very much, that we do not have the stories from the leaders of the third Reich because they were killed in Wartime tribunals for crimes against humanity. I am not so sure that we need those stories. We know what racism is and the disgustingness of judging someone from perceived differences.
This was wrong in the 1930s and 1940s and is most definitely wrong in 2017, though the political climate in the United States currently says otherwise. Books like this are needed to remind us that killing people for religious or lifestyle differences is wrong. The idea of going to war to eradicate these differences will end up starving us out. I have read better books on Nazi Germany than this one, but this book has an excellent bibliography.
This was wrong in the 1930s and 1940s and is most definitely wrong in 2017, though the political climate in the United States currently says otherwise. Books like this are needed to remind us that killing people for religious or lifestyle differences is wrong. The idea of going to war to eradicate these differences will end up starving us out. I have read better books on Nazi Germany than this one, but this book has an excellent bibliography.
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