A Final Solution? Nazi Policy Towards the Jews
A Satanic conspiracy designed from the beginning to eliminate European Jewry? Or ad hoc responses aimed at replenishing Nazi zeal and producing convenient scapegoats? A fresh look at one of the most hideous episodes in world history.
For nearly twenty years after the collapse of Hitler's Reich first revealed the full horrors of the Holocaust it was widely supposed that genocide on this enormous scale must have been the last stage of a deliberate Nazi policy, a long-matured master plan which aimed all along at the physical annihilation of European Jewry. In the monolithic Nazi state where all power was allegedly concentrated in the Fuhrer's hands, his vitriolic hatred of all things Jewish would have been sufficient on its own to explain the murder of six-and-a-half million Jews.
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