Explaining Hitler (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ron Rosenbaum
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Europe, North America, and Israel
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Prejudices or antipathies, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps, Genocide
- Locales: Europe, Israel, North America
A writer named Milton Himmelfarb plays an important cameo role in Ron Rosenbaum’s remarkable book Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. In March, 1984, Himmelfarb published “No Hitler, No Holocaust,” an essay in which he contended that the decision to annihilate European Jewry was Adolf Hitler’s alone, a view that has not been shared by every Holocaust scholar. Far from being impelled by historical, political, or cultural forces to murder the European Jews, Himmelfarb continued, Hitler wanted and chose to annihilate them.
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