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According to the book description of
Genocide: the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, “Sometime in the winter of 1940-41 a
policy decision was made and crowned with the title "The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem". The "solution"
envisioned was all too final, the murder of all Jews under German domination. Those who acted on this policy were certain
that they were implementing the Fuhrer's will.
The slaughter was undertaken by mobile
killing units - Einsatzgruppen, that accompanied advancing German forces. They entered town after town, rounded up the Jews,
Gypsies, and Soviet Commissars and shot them one by one. When the military situation stabilized, the killing units returned
to finish off what had been left undone. They were to return again in 1943, this time to dig up and burn the bodies in order
to wipe out all evidence of their crimes.
Killing was difficult, even for the
killers. They spoke in euphemisms - of special actions, executive measures, resettlement, or appropriate treatment. Himmler
was told by one of his Einsatzgruppen commanders, "These men are finished for the rest of their lives..." To deal
with this problem, a more impersonal method of killing was sought. If the killers could no longer be brought to the victims,
the victims must be brought to the killers and disposed at a distance. Thus, a second form of killing was developed - the
death camp.
According to the book description of
Holocaust: In the Name of the Füehrer, “During the Second World War, six million Jews
- as well as other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped and homosexuals - were systematically murdered
by Adolf Hitler's Nazis and their collaborators. The incomprehensible number - six million - becomes all the more horrifying
when it is broken down into the many individual atrocities, which occurred almost daily from 1941-1945. Holocaust: In the
Name of the Füehrer is the second book of a planned Holocaust trilogy. The first book, Genocide: The Final Solution to
the Jewish Question is also available from Trafford Publishing.”
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According to the book description of
Barbarossa: The German Campaign in Russia - Planning and Operations (1940-1942), “The purpose
of this book is to describe German planning and operations in the first part of the campaign against Russia. The narrative
starts with Hitler's initial plans for an invasion of Russia and ends at the time of Germany's maximum territorial gains during
the battle of Stalingrad. A subsequent volume will depict the course of events from the Russian counteroffensive in November
1942 to the capture of Berlin in April 1945.”
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