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Empire of Destruction

A History of Nazi Mass Killing

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Empire of Destruction

By: Alex J. Kay
Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
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The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing - showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war.

Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification program.

Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Kay considers Europe’s Jews alongside all other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma, and the Polish intelligentsia. He shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. This groundbreaking work combines the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror.

©2021 Alex J. Kay (P)2021 Yale Press Audio
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Enthralling & Enlightening

This may have been a baptism of fire for me on this specific subject...
A little bit "figures" heavy upto 70% through but give the subject matter I'm glad it was that way.

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Too many numbers to engage

Great topic and really good insight I just found that it was way too many numbers and data being used too often for me to keep up and engage fully, I had to return

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