Category: Non Fiction

Review: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting. Wannsee and The Final Solution – Mark Roseman

Posted on by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

On 20 January 1942 the most murderous meeting in history took place

Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes

Posted on by Speesh in Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.