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‘The reason this is such an important book is that when you study the Holocaust you ask almost immediately: How could people do this? How could men who had their own children, go out and murder other children? Or husbands take women and rip open their wombs and kill their infants and shoot them behind the ear? This book raised that question in a very, very strong and powerful way, based on firsthand testimony.’
“The takeaway from reading this horror-filled book is that depredations on the scale of those that Browning describes can be perpetrated anywhere and by anyone.”
Lawrence Kaplan, Journalist
“One of my students cited this book as the reason that he carried on doing history.”
Hester Vaizey, Historian
Norman Naimark
Steven Katz
