Probing the culpability of adolf hitler regarding the holocaust, this study asserts that the fuhrer personally designed and ordered the extermination of the jewish. However, his early writings and statements cannot be viewed as a blueprint for the murders put into effect so many years later. Following this, the holocaust took the lives of 90% of the polishjewish population, twothirds of the jewish european population. The final solution to the jewish question was the official code name for the murder of all jews within reach, which was not restricted to the european continent. The writings are arranged in three sectionshitler and the final solution, popular opinion and. In fact, hitler was obsessed with jews and was determined to find a final solution for getting rid of them. They murdered more than one and a half million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at babi yar.
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The final solution was a policy of the nazi party, a policy of deliberate and systematic genocide, and was formulated by nazi leadership in the january of 1942 at the wannsee conference which was held near berlin. Hitler, the germans, and the final solution kershaw, ian on. Hitler, the germans, and the final solution book, 2008. What is clear is that the genocide of the jews was the culmination of a decade of nazi policy, under the rule of adolf hitler. The mass shootings outside riga, 30 november and 8 december 1941.
Project muse hitler, the germans, and the final solution. Flemings apparent motivation stems from the recent controversy of mr. It is not possible to sink lower than this nothing belongs to us anymore. Hitler, the germans, and the final solution yale university press. The final solution to the jewish question was the official code name for the murder of all jews within reach, which was. Ian kershaw this book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on nazi germany by one of the periods most distinguished historians. The final solution was the culmination of many years of evolving nazi policy commencing with hitlers earliest writings about the need for a solution to the jewish question in europe, followed by the. Flemings book should finally lay to rest david irvings provocative theory that hitler neither ordered nor wished the destruction of the jewish people. Rooted in 19 thcentury antisemitic discourse on the jewish question, final solution as a nazi cover term denotes the last stage in the evolution of the third reichs antijewish policies from persecution to physical annihilation on a european scale. The first moments of hitlers final solution history. The final solution of the jewish question was the euphemistic term used by the nazi german authorities to refer to the plan to annihilate european jewry. He is the author of nine books, including ordinary men 1992 and.
Buy hitler and the final solution new ed by fleming isbn. Hitler, the germans, and the final solution on jstor. Wanting to protect his races purity, he thought about getting rid of all jews throughout europe, along with other races he believed to be subhuman, including slavs, gypsies, homosexuals. On january 20 1942, adolf hitler gave a speech on his final solution to the jewish question. Buy hitler, the germans, and the final solution first edition by ian kershaw isbn. He was pilloried by many of the public when they found out.
At the forefront of this short, but provocative study, is adolf hitler himself. Hitler book maps final solution in canada, library and. Between 1938 and 1945 adolf hitler and his nazi regime murdered more than 6 million jews. Cesaranis justification for another book about the holocaust is. Estimations had concluded that about 5,933,900 jews were killed during the final solution. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of ian kershaws research on the holocaust for the first time. Six million jewish men, women, and children were killed during the holocausttwothirds of the jews living in europe before world war ii. The term final solution of the jewish question was a euphemism used by nazi germanys leaders. Both those who are historical novices in this period and those who are well immersed in it will benefit from kershaws insights on nazi germany in general and on hitler and the final solution in particular. Ian kershaw, the author of a magisterial twovolume biography of hitler, has spent the last quartercentury trying to explain nazisms origins and appeals. Sep 21, 1986 german doctors and the final solution.
The final solution to adolf hitler sheds new light on one of the darkest chapters in modern history. Ideas that were too provocative for publication 2003 the film archives. The final solution the origin of the final solution, the nazi plan to exterminate the jewish people, remains uncertain. Both those who are historical novices in this period and those who are well immersed in it will benefit from kershaws insights on nazi germany in. Raul hilberg, in his book the destruction of the european jews, was the first historian to systematically document and analyse the nazi. This speech was held on january 20, 1942 in the wansee conference. Hitler, the germans, and the final solution by ian kershaw.
The most important use of the term to mean this was in a memorandum from hermann goring to reinhard heydrich, dated 31 july, 1941, asking heydrich to prepare an. Final solution codename for the nazis plan to solve the jewish question by murdering all the jews in europe. Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man we had reached the bottom. Browning for arguing that the decision to launch the final solution to the jewish question was. David cesaranis final solution is the new standard chronicle of the fate of a heroic people caught in the hell that was hitlers germany. Browning for arguing that the decision to launch the final. Fleming is the only scholar given access to the interr. Oct 23, 2009 what hitler s own lawyer testified about hitler s ancestry in his deathbed pamphlet at nuremburg entitled, in the face of the gallows. Buy hitler, the germans, and the final solution by ian kershaw isbn.