The Holocaust was far from carefully planned, argues David Cesarani. Nazi policies were often “confused, contradictory, half-baked”.
David Herman reviews Final Solution: the Fate of the Jews 1933-49 by David Cesarani.
Last October, the historian David Cesarani died of a heart attack just weeks after an operation to remove a tumour on his spine. Right until the end of his life, he worked on his last projects: a forthcoming study on Disraeli and the book he surely hoped would be his magnum opus, Final Solution, a thousand-page history of Nazism and its attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
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Source: New Statesman
