Belonging and Genocide

No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Khne offers a provocative answer. In addition to the hatred of Jews or coercion that created a genocidal society, he contends, the desire for a united peoples community made Germans conform and join together in mass crime.Exploring private letters, diaries, memoirs, secret reports, trial ...