Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly
reviewed and bestselling titles in this series. The penultimate title in the Hitler's Germany
series the book marks the end of the Second World War and the end of the Nazi regime
offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters significant events of
this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s that would
evolve into full-blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two. The Hitler
Years: Holocaust 1933-1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated
by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s placing in context what was to come once
the Nazi Party gained power in 1933 the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German-Jewish
population. It covers the country's slow slide into a pre-war policy of intimidation that would
culminate in the murderous attacks on 'Kristallnacht' (the 'Night of Broken Glass'). As Europe
marched into another global conflict in 1939 tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the
country only to be swept up as Hitler's armies conquered all Western Europe. With the invasion
of the Soviet Union the secret meeting in early 1942 (the Wannsee Conference) would utilise
the war in the east to plan in intricate detail the annihilation of the Jewish population on
the continent - known to all now as the 'Final Solution'. The fully illustrated book draws
together and engages with the latest scholarly research makes extensive use of primary
research presenting a vivid and shocking narrative. A tragic and deadly period in German and
European history is brought to life by one of the country's premier scholars.
