Hitler and the Holocaust

About the Book

Hitler and the Holocaust: The Hidden Story is a new interpretation of the causes of the Holocaust, going beyond other books on the subject including Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.

There is a widespread feeling that the Holocaust was so grave and unique a crime that it must remain a mystery. The same is often said of the criminal, Hitler. Here for the first time

is a comprehensive explanation of why Hitler and the Holocaust happened.

The explanation sticks to the facts but goes beyond previous understandings.

The book traces the initial cause of the Holocaust back to dramatic changes in the 19th century that were perceived as unjust and immoral. They led to fierce resistance, and inspired crazed political types in Germany who adopted the Jews as their symbol of hated change.

Near the end of the process of change was a sociopath, Hitler. He was one of many extremists dedicated to 100-year-old beliefs and plans to turn back history, Germanize the world and exterminate the Jews.

The book is designed for the general reader, students and the worldwide Jewish community. It will be of interest in the fields of Holocaust studies, 19th- and 20th-century history, sociology and German history. Its critique of early democracy and free enterprise may be of special interest in connection with Hitler and the Holocaust.

About the Author

About the Author Martin Wank is the author of four books: Freud's Answer: The Social Origins of Our Psychoanalytic Century; Sex, Freud and Folly: The Truth About Psychotherapy; The Real World; and Vietnam Essays. He has also published articles on science, technology, history, philosophy, sociology and literature. The subject of Hitler and the Holocaust suggested itself when he researched the life and times of Freud in Vienna and the history of Europe in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The first Freud book, the Holocaust book and a forthcoming book about a psychotic judge in 19th-century Germany, form a trilogy which the author calls The Freedom Trilogy. The three books concern the problems caused by the spread of democracy and free enterprise beginning in the 19th century. If he has the good fortune to write his book about Hamlet, the trilogy will turn into a tetralogy, the Renaissance being the beginning of what in the 19th century and the first half of the and 20th century turned into modern freedom and terror.