Germany is our problem,4 reviews Henry Morgenthau Harper & brothers, 1945 Fascinating on many levels + A Plan for Permanently Disarming Germany The other reviews you'll find here are beside the point. The merits of Morgenthau Jr.'s book or his views on the Germans as such are largely moot: the book has by now become a historical document. Morgenthau wasn't just any old crackpot, but Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 ...             Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier of the Third Reich1 review Peter R. Black Princeton Univ Pr, 1984 Austrian "proto-Nazism", Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and the Extermination of Jews and Slavs Peter R. Black traces the career of Ernst Kaltenbrunner up to his hanging after Nuremberg. Nazi-type ideology long predated Hitler, notably in 19th-century Austria: "Germans in Austria were particularly sensitive about their nationality in a multinational state that was not only modernizing its ...             What to do with Germany1 review Louis Nizer H. Hamilton, 1944 Diagnosing the Causes of German Aggression Written during the closing stages of WWII, this book gives a snapshot of views that were current at that time in history. Nizer attempts to explain how Germany had sunk to such levels of barbarity. He repudiates the notion that Germans are innately warlike (p. 6), and rejects some draconian ...             The Memoirs Of Doctor Felix Kersten1 review Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 Insights into the Thoughts of Heinrich Himmler This review is based on the original (1957) edition. Felix Kersten, Himmler's personal physician, had numerous heart-to-heart conversations with him. Historian Trevor-Roper credits Kersten's intervention with the saving of the lives of 60,000 Jews (p. 11) and at least 500 Poles (p. 14). In ...             Himmler - The Evil Genius of the Third Reich1 review Willi Frischauer The Beacon Press, 1953 Heinrich Himmler and the Extermination of Jews and Slavs This book includes both biographical and historical information on the thoughts and policies of Reichsfuehrer S. S. Heinrich Himmler. Although written decades before the Holocaust became an exclusive term for the extermination of Jews and was treated as a unique historical event, it contains ...             The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry ...5 reviews Richard Breitman Brandeis, 1992 Superior biography of Himmler + "Now, You Decide Who was Architect of the Final Solution?" + Detailed and Informative, But Doesn't "Connect the Dots" to the Eventual Extermination of Poles + Breitman's Heindrich Himmler             Conversations with an Executioner5 reviews Kazimierz Moczarski Prentice-Hall, 1981 Mass Murder Without Convictions + Nazi Juergen Stroop Confirms Direct Polish Participation in the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising + Depressing portrait of a Nazi war criminal + Human figure behind the history created monster + The portrait of the twentieth century             Creator of Nazi Death Camps: The Life of Odilo Globocnik1 review Berndt Rieger Vallentine-Mitchell, 2007 An Architect of Nazi German Genocide Odilo Globocnik was of partial Slovenian ancestry. Like Hitler, he grew up with the belief that the Slavic and Jewish elements were corrupting and weakening the Germanic element of his native Austria. Globocnik set up the death camps of Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Settling in Lublin ...             Inside the Third Reich73 reviews Albert Speer Simon & Schuster, 1997 Successes and Limitations of Allied Bombing + Inside the Third Reich According to One of Them! + Essential History of Hitler's Third Reich + Self-serving yet interesting + The Memoir of an Architect             Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz31 reviews Rudolf Höss Da Capo Press, 1996 Rudolph Hoess (Auschwitz Kommandant) and the Clarification of Some Holocaust Misconceptions + Testimony of the monster + How badly the Germans hate the Jews! + A very good tranlation             Top Nazi SS General Karl Wolff: The Man Between Hitler and Himmler2 reviews Jochen von Lang Enigma Books, New York, NY, 2005 A "White Glove" Nazi + Insights into WWII-Related Nazi Politics This is the story of a man born to privilege who rose through the ranks of the German armed forces and the SS, became the personal adjutant to Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, and yet claimed never to have known about any of the atrocities committed by that regime. You will decide how credible ...             Goebbels, the Man Next to Hitler.1 review Rudolf Semmler AMS Press / Westhouse, 1982 Goebbels Affirmed the Efficacy of Polish Warnings on Doomed Jews Rudolf Semmler wrote down his conversations with Joseph Goebbels. This book, in effect, is Goebbels's table talk. Semmler attests to the anti-Christian, humanistic philosophy of Goebbels (7/24/1941), which was to be fully expressed after the war: "Then he [Goebbels] would like to produce a book ...             German Crimes in Poland1 review Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes of Poland Howard Fertig, 1981 Early Studies on the Extermination of Jews and the Ongoing Extermination of Poles This work is a summary of the first investigations of German Nazi crimes in Poland, conducted immediately after the war. Because of this, it is free of much of the ideological baggage that has subsequently followed. A cataloguing is made of street executions of Poles by the Germans, but it is ...             In The Shadow Of The Reich3 reviews Niklas Frank Knopf, 1991 Niklas Frank on Hans Frank and the Planned Extermination of the Poles + A son reacts to a terrible father Although Niklas was born in 1939, the same year that Germany unleashed WWII by conquering Poland with the Soviet Union, and was therefore too young to understand what was going on then, he provides a devastating critique of his father's conduct as the Butcher of Poland. Of course, some of the ...             Final Entries 1945... The Diaries of1 review Joseph (editor: Hugh Trevor-Roper) Goebbels G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978 Jews and Poles Remain Scapegoats; Goebbels Perceives Actual Soviet Intentions In the closing weeks of the European component of WWII, Goebbels's attitude towards the Jews remained unchanged: (April 3, 1945): "The Jews have applied for a seat at the San Francisco Conference. It is characteristic that their main demand is that anti-Semitism be forbidden throughout the world. ...             Trial of The Major War Criminals Before The International Military Tribunal Nuremberg 14 November 1945-1 ...1 review International Military Tribunal Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, 1948 The Genocidal Persecution of Jews, Poles, and Others This volume includes some choice statements made by Hans Frank, who was the Butcher of Poland, responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews and Poles. By way of description, "In 1939, he [Frank] was the man who for a long time past had been corrupting the German legal concept, to whom Hitler ...             The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!2 reviews Juergen Stroop Pantheon Books, 1979 raw and sobering + Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: German Enemy Credits Poles More Than Do Holocaust Materials. For Shame! This work is an outstanding production that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Holocaust scholarship. Every aspect of this book is well done and informative. Andrzej Wirth offers a short introduction to the book, giving the reader a little context for what went on in Warsaw at ...             The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-19434 reviews Joseph Goebbels Greenwood Press Reprint, 1970 The Private Thoughts of One of Hitler's Most Trusted! + Holocaust Uniqueness (Not); Slav Genocide; Polish Guerilla Successes; Nazi anti-Christianity (1942-1943) + Private thinkings of propaganda inventor + Essential reading for understanding what went on in Germany             Heydrich: The Face of Evil10 reviews Mario Dederichs Greenhill Books, 2006 Reinhard Heydrich: One of the Chief Architects of Genocide + Good book but could be better + THE EYES OF A RUTHLESS, EVIL HENCHMAN Mario Dederich traces Heydrich's life from his early years in the Nazi Party, through his views on resettlement of Jews (p. 100) which evolved into extermination of the same, his assassination by Czech partisans, the ghastly German reprisals, and postwar issues. Heydrich is described as a man who ...             The Question of German Guilt (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 16)2 reviews Karl Jaspers Fordham University Press, 2001 Collective Liability but No Collective Guilt, According to Jaspers + Karl Jaspers Returns to his Homeland The following review is based on the original (1947) English-language edition. What Karl Jaspers means by guilt, in all of its types (see pp. 31-32), has already been discussed by another reviewer, and will not be repeated here. Jaspers has, correctly or incorrectly, been considered an ...