* Lew’s Goodreads review of “The Twisted Road to Aushwitz” by Karl A. Schleunes
This is one of the first books (published in 1970) to put the persecution of Jews by the Nazis into a sequential narrative context, and it is still valuable today even after many other works have added information not available to Schleunes. The Nazi efforts to achieve the Jew-free Germany demanded by Hitler […]
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Jan 14, 2016 03:28AM
That sounds interesting even if Schleunes didn't have all of the information we have available today. No one really has all the information anyway and each book or piece of information is valuable in and of its own self. What I am looking for is some sort of collection of the anti-Semitic pamphlets Hitler read as a young man in Vienna that began to put nasty ideas into his head. He was also at that time influenced by the writings of Lanz von Liebenfels. Guido von List, Georg von Sconerer. and Karl Lueger. I wish could read translations of what he read so to make a sort of time line of how he was influenced and how his own views changed and developed as he studied their thoughts. This impressionable period in his life when he became absorbed with these hate-mongers, what if he had been reading Jewish authors instead? Would there have been a Holocaust? There was no evidence I have seen that would show his parents as anti-Semites. In fact, Hitler seems to have been close to the Jewish family doctor as they cared for Hitler's dying mother together.
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Terri Lynn wrote: "That sounds interesting even if Schleunes didn't have all of the information we have available today. No one really has all the information anyway and each book or piece of information is valuable ..."If I run across any of the pamphlets, I'll let you know.
Terri Lynn wrote: "That sounds interesting even if Schleunes didn't have all of the information we have available today. No one really has all the information anyway and each book or piece of information is valuable ..."TERRI LYNN ... Sounds like you know all the contacts. If I run across any of the pamphlets, I'll let you know ... LEW
