The depth of scholarship is staggering in this book that chronicles the rise of anti-Semitism under the Nazi regime, to the atrocious Final Solution. German-born, Longerich, is a profound authority on the Holocaust and a worthy alternative read to our own Ian Kershaw.

The depth of scholarship is staggering in this book which chronicles the rise of anti-Semitism under the Nazi regime, to the atrocious Final Solution. German-born Longerich is a profound authority on the Holocaust and a worthy altrnative read to Kershaw.