Origins Of The Final Solution

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This is a book of exceptional quality
- The work of a historian at the peak of his powers a magisterial study a profound analysis of how the darkest chapter in human history could come about.
- Ian Kershaw bestselling author of Hitler". " The Origins of the Final Solution" is the most detailed careful & comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan but rather a discovered possibility Christopher Browning explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages & by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Only in the interval between late September & late October 1941 did the desire to remove the Jews intersect with the discovery of acceptable means of killing them on a large scale & with the euphoria of expected victory in Russia all of which followed on from two years of race war & racial imperialism in eastern Europe that prepared ordinary Germans for this fateful task. Author Bio: Christopher Browning is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His previous books include " Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 & the Final Solution in Poland" (1992); " The Path to Genocide" (1992); " The Final Solution & the German Foreign Office" (1978) & " Nazi Policy Jewish Labour German Killers" (2000). Praise for " Origins of the Final Solution": This magisterial work... An unrivaled account of how the Nazi leadership ended up with a policy of industrialized mass murder of Jews-Probably no one is better qualified for this task than Christopher Browning.
- Mark Mazower in the " New York Times". Browning is persuasive because he marshals his evidence with unrivalled skill & writes with awesome clarity.
- " Literary Review"."