
Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
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Narrated by:
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Neil Hellegers
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Richard Rhodes
In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces", organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into Eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than one and a half million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar. These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers.
In this painstaking account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign's architects as well as its "ordinary" soldiers and policemen and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.
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Well researched and well written.
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Holocausts still take place today and states let it happen. We are still a heartbeat away from medieval societies...
Never forgetting
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human nature at it's worst
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This was not a relaxing book but a eye opening book that this horrible event actually happened and it has happened again since on a lesser scale. People need to learn from the past
Wow
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Narration irritated me.
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People at their worst!
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I enjoy books such as this cause it reminds me of how easy I have it living free in America. I’m grateful for all those who sacrificed so I might have these freedoms. Got bless
Makes you think
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Narrator is Compassionate
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Powerful and difficult
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Richard Rhodes IS the master historian and the master story-teller. And it must have taken great intestinal fortitude to research and write about the most vile period in human history. But not as much intestinal fortitude as the people who were subjected to the final solution.
Perhaps if society valued works such as these more than they valued The Apprentice and Duck Dynasty we wouldn't be forced to confront this evil once again.
The plus side to reading Masters Of Death is that reader will come away with a deeper understanding of HOW it happens. The downside, as in a case such as myself, is that the reader may also come away with deep resentment. Hatred isn't healthy no matter how it manifests itself. When it comes to The Third Reich, however, it's a hatred I can live with.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."-Samuel Johnson
Difficult To Endure But Necessary Reading
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