The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition137 reviews Norman G. Finkelstein Verso, 2003 Brilliant! + The Holocaust industry has gone beserk + HORRIFIC JEWISH COMMITTED ATROCITIES CONTINUING TO BE REVEALED... BY A COURAGEOUS JEWISH SCHOLAR & HUMANIST + norman finkelstein- academic martyr             Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe4 reviews Norman M. Naimark Harvard University Press, 2002 great resource on some of the worst acts of the 20th century + Excellent and overdue + Interesting with lumping + A Tour de Force             Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community8 reviews Linda Melvern Verso, 2004 Conspiracy Versus Conspiracy Theory + Excellent investigative reporting + How the world failed Rwanda. Original interview on Small Wars Journal.com "It is called The General's Book on Rwanda, and, right, the General is Rwandan Major General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, who was the head of the Nationale Gendarmerie during the period of time in which what has come to be referred to as the "Rwandan ...             Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing12 reviews James Waller Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 How a society's conscience becomes corrupted + How Insanity Happens + Very Interesting + Excellent theoretical model + A complete, in depth analysis of extraordinary evil             A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide187 reviews Samantha Power Harper Perennial, 2003 Thorough Study of Genocide History + An important book to read + What About America's own Age of its Genocide? Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an impressive accounts of genocide against Armenians in Turkey, Jews in Holocaust, Tutsi in Rwanda, Kurds in Iraq, and Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan war; the stories are extremely well-written, and the images ...             The Holocaust in American Life31 reviews Peter Novick Mariner Books, 2000 Novick has said it all about the politics of the Holocaust! + About the representations of the holocaust in American life + The Preeminent Status of Jewish WWII Sufferings This excellent book could have only been written by an historian with ties to Judaism and much of it was destined to fall on deaf ears on both sides of the political/cultural divide. Being a non-Jew but interested in politics, this book seems to mesh well with other books that are nominally on the ...             The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II638 reviews Iris Chang Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 An Emotive, Powerful and Well-Researched Piece + A must read + From a Korean reader with Japanese friends. + Shocking, Heartbreaking, but Necessary + remember not only the number of people slaughtered             The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies17 reviews Guenter Lewy Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 One of the only books on the subject + Worthy of praise + Hitler's other victims Some 50,000 Gypsy's were gassed to death in the war and many more died. This book is a clinical account of the brutalization of the Gypsy people but it is mostly a legal account of how the Nazis slowly de-humanized and categorized the Gypsy 'nomads' in Germany. There is not enough discussion of ...             A Terrible Revenge, Second Edition, Fully Revised and Updated: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European ...34 reviews Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 Time the World Put Communism on Trial. + Historical facts review and witness accounts of German survivors and refugees from the Eastern sectors + A terrible, ignored revenge + Important Book + The disregarded genocide             The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 ...12 reviews Christopher R. Browning University of Nebraska Press, 2004 Intensive but worthwhile + evolution of the holocaust + Perfect Scholarship + Evolution is apt + Did Hitler ever ordered it?Not a shred of evidence here!             Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust48 reviews Richard Rhodes Vintage, 2003 Not An Easy Book to Read or Stomach + Puts the Holocaust in a broader perspective + Terrible but true + A hard slog. + A book that every history student or teacher should read.             Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda2 reviews Alison Des Forges Human Rights Watch, 1999 Most extensive,authoritative account of this genocide. + excellent This is the most extensive and authoritative account of the Rwandan genocide yet published. Drawing from Rwandan government documents and other official and unofficial sources, the principal author, Alison Des Forges, and her collaborators, have done a remarkable job pulling together the complex ...             War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race21 reviews Edwin Black Basic Books, 2003 Bad Blood + Fascinating, Terrifying and Exhausting to Read + Horrific and fascinating + Chilling, absolutely chilling + Amazing and eye-opening             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             The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide29 reviews Robert Jay Lifton Basic Books, 2000 In our own time... + Making sense of the Holocaust + An Enduringly Important Book + "Physician, Heal Thyself" The Nazi Doctor and the Holocaust + Fascinating             Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland54 reviews Christopher R. Browning Harper Perennial, 1993 Not for the faint of heart, or the weak of stomach! + Ordinary Men is a grisly look at a German killing squad implementing the Final Solution in Poland + Frightfully banal + Excellent             Rethinking the Holocaust6 reviews Yehuda Bauer Yale University Press, 2002 An essential book for Jews + A profound reconsideration of the Holocaust + Excellent Historical Overview I have to thank the New York Times Book Review for inducing me to read the book. Because it is so painful to read abot the Shoah and because most of the facts are already imprinted in my brain, I avoid books on the subject. But I wanted to know what was going on, as some of the revisionist ideas ...             Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison8 reviews David Chandler University of California Press, 2000 Excellent view of a lost chapter in 20th century history! + Terrified and terrifying Chandler has done a magnificient job bringing the Khmer Rouge prison "S-21" into clear view. During the reign of the Khmer Rouge S-21 was used as the prison, interrogation center, and finally, the place of execution for several thousand Cambodians who were suspected of counter revolutionary ...             We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda215 reviews Philip Gourevitch Picador, 1999 Never Again - Again and Again + "The Idea is the Crime" + One of the best books I have read in a long time + The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide             The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian2 reviews Raul Hilberg Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002 Where it all begins + Summary of life & work of the greatest Holocaust historian Hillberg wrote this as a Phd thesis, and therefore it is a carefully researched book. I have an original copy signed by the author, and it came at a time to be my first major purchase on the subject. I had a chance to hear him speak a couple of years ago and brought my copy along. He was amazed ...