Most historians, after a long and involved dispute, now accept that Hitler’s threats to annihilate the Jewish population on the European continent were an important element in the Nazi regime’s escalating wartime policy of expulsion and extermination. The general consensus, however, is that the ‘Final Solution’ was not ordered at a particular moment so much as gradually adopted. In a compact, readable, and cogently argued text, Hitler’s Prophecy draws on the rapidly expanding provision of online archival materials to set out some significant new findings, proposing a fresh answer to the abiding question of exactly when and why the Holocaust was put into practical effect. It examines the circumstances in which the prophecy was initially formulated and subsequently, at critical points, menacingly repeated, and links the prophecy to the eventual evacuation of Jewry ‘to the east’ in an ultimately homicidal form, identifying the order—in fact orders—that were issued. Covering the period from January 1939 to the spring of 1942, it describes in detail the exact sequence of events, establishing Hitler’s direct responsibility as well as depicting the role played by the main collaborato
Author(s): Simon Burgess
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 136
City: London
Cover
Front matter
Title page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction The Final Problem
1: 1918
2: The Speech
3: Special Tasks
4: The Commission
5: Paying the Price
6: 'The Greatest Crime’
7: Three ‘Solutions’
8: A Deadly Enemy
9: The Birthday Present
10: Wendepunkt
11: The Conference
12: Win or Lose
13: Orders
14: Who Knew?
Epilogue The Reason Why
Select Bibliography
Index
