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Why?

Peter Hayes has written a superb new book examining how and why the Holocaust happened.

Targets: Why the Jews?

Attackers: Why the Germans?

Escalation: Why Murder?

Annihilation: Why This Swift and Sweeping?

Victims: Why Didn't More Jews Fight Back More Often?

Homeland: Why Did Survival Rates Diverge?

Onlookers: Why Such Limited Help from Outside?

Why? Explaining the Holocaust is hard to read but it does provide answers to questions that have puzzled us for decades.

Sorry

Sorry to be gone so long from my blog but it's been a tough winter this year. Cold, snow, unmeltable ice, and the HRS virus, which laid us low for a couple of weeks.

I've been doing a lot of reading and a lot of the books I've been reading have been hefty. A thousand-page biography of Hitler (volume 1) and a Chinese classic in four volumes that I'll be reading for the rest of my life. 

I'll be back with some comments on books soon.