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A Dangerously Honest Book, 5 Sep 2009
By Jonathan Hiscott - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up (Paperback)
I wanted to know how humans can create an atrocity of that magnitude, and this book managed to answer the question. This book delves right past the non-answers, and goes into the bold and usually necessarily hushed, territory of the combination of human nature, culture, beliefs, politics, etc. that allowed and acted out the Holocaust.
As is necessary to fully answer such a question, the author does not hesitate to be honest and step on certain toes. The author also went to the additional effort of exploring how these issues are still a concern today and how they apply in general ways.
I highly recommend this book.
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WHY You Should Read This Book, 5 Nov 2001
By John S. Travis, Bookseller - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause and Scholarly Cover-Up (Paperback)
This may be one of the most important history books of the decade. There is not much new to say about Hitler, right? WRONG. By carefully studying Hitler's early writings--something no one else apparently has done--Zuesse arrives at a completely new and profound view of the Nazi period and the holocaust. Highly recommended.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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WHY did this take so long to be written?, 30 Dec 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up (Paperback)
I consider WHY to be a valuable book. Amazing that this angle has not been pursued before given all the writing that has taken place since the Holocaust. I have been troubled by the seeming increase of racism and hatred as of late. This book answers the question as to why such a perpetuation and increase may be happening. In short, the gestational mechanism of such behaviour has been been unchallenged and left to continue its work because it has never been effectively identified. This book changes that. May it become widely read.