Hitler's Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II
In this meticulously researched book, McKale posits that Hitler and his fellow Nazis used the war in Europe as a cover for the real war they meant to fight. This was a "shadow war," he contends, in which Hitler would murder millions of Jews in Europe and Asia and eventually elsewhere in the world. McKale points out that the huge resources Germany used to carry out the "war against the Jews" could have been used to fight against the Western allies and the Soviet Union. McKale examines why, among all the racial, political, and other groups that Hitler despised and persecuted, he singled out the Jews for his greatest hatred. He surveys the steadily increasing yet "twisted road" of Nazi persecution of the German Jews before 1939. For anyone seeking to come to terms with the depravity of the Holocaust, this book will be required reading.George CohenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved