Hitler’s Prophecy

The Key to the HolocaustBurgess, Simon  This is a highly readable overview of, and contribution to, the debate around the timing and nature of decision-making in relation to the Holocaust, encouraging us to think anew about the role of Hitler and how power operated in his dictatorship.Dr Paul Moore, University of LeicesterMost historians, after a long and involved dispute, now accept that Hitler’s threats to annihilate the Jewish population on the European continent were an important element in the Nazi regime’s escalating wartime policy of expulsion and extermination. The general consensus, however, is that the ‘Final Solution’ was not ordered at a particular moment so much as gradually adopted. In a compact, readable and cogently argued text, Hitler’s Prophecy draws on the rapidly expanding provision of online archival materials to set out some significant new findings, proposing a fresh answer to the abiding question of exactly when and why the Holocaust was put into practical effec