3.5 stars
This book is a necessary examination of the years leading up to the atrocities of the Holocaust with a close study of the political and scientific ideology behind Hitler's leadership. It is important for present day societies to realize that the Holocaust was not the overnight instigation of a madman's influence but instead a decades long shift after the politics, economics and struggles following the first World War. I went into this book with high expectations for its content and was really only satisfied with the well thought out conclusion which lists all of the current events that could potentially lead to Holocaust conditions. In all honesty, I thought and hoped the entire book would focus on these conclusions, however, in reality this is a fairly dry, repetitive and weirdly emotionless factual accounting of the events leading up to and including World War II. While I think politicians and policy-makers would benefit from a close reading of this book, it rather reminded me of the driest of my graduate school policy tomes. Overall, important information with impactful conclusions but could have been written better for a wider audience. I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for an honest review.
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