'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to
how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the
warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly
argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and
utterly absorbing examination of one of the most terrible events in
world history. Martin Davidson's meticulous and scholarly research
and exquisite writing has provided us with one of the most
important books ever written on the subject.' JAMES HOLLAND 'A
highly readable thesis of how ordinary people were turned into
monsters by the malevolent propaganda of Hitler and his henchmen
... A very good book.' SAUL DAVID, Telegraph By 1942, it was an
article of faith that what the Nazis called 'The Jewish Question'
had only one answer: the mass extermination of an entire people.
Six million European Jews were savagely murdered as a result of
this perverted but profoundly held conviction. In this radical new
perspective on Hitler's so-called 'Final Solution', Martin Davidson
shows that the terrible fate of Europe's Jews was not one Nazi
policy amongst many, but the central preoccupation of the regime,
one which they were determined to achieve and of which they were
most chillingly proud. How were so many people convinced that the
Jews deserved such treatment - or were at least persuaded to shrug
their shoulders and turn a blind eye? Why did they think Germany
could only be reborn with their eradication? That Jewish suffering
was not only necessary, but deserved? How were the moral standards
of an entire nation so warped and perverted, that the Final
Solution came to be regarded as a rational, thrilling, even sacred,
element of Nazi state policy? Mobilising Hate examines in detail
how Nazi ideologues worked to frame and amplify anti-Jewish feeling
in Germany. Davidson explores the origins of radical anti-Jewish
polemic in the volcanic upheavals that swept over Germany in the
months after the First World War. How it seeded a theory that
claimed to explain the truth of the entirety of human history. How
that theory would go on to pervert science; corrupt the law;
rewrite history; taint art, music and literature; and turn the
media into the servant of a brutal and pitiless regime with a
single message to communicate: destroying Jews lives was the
indispensable first step to making Germany - and indeed, Europe -
great again. Davidson goes on to track the way in which Nazi
leaders moved from theory to practice, by accident and by design,
skilfully dramatising the many twists and turns that would lead to
Auschwitz and beyond, many of which are not generally included in
conventional accounts. Mobilising Hate is driven by the first-hand
accounts of many of those defined by the Nazi genocide; both its
architects and perpetrators, as well as its targeted victims.
Poignantly too, the book turns the spotlight on the whistle-blowers
who saw, recorded and shared accounts of the horrors unfolding
across the continent - only to be greeted time and time again, with
guarded and non-committal hedging from Allied governments. Many
people inside Germany, and across the world, knew, but, it seemed,
very few felt they needed to care. As our world once again grapples
with the challenges of global mass resentment, economic insecurity
and the growing desire to find people - entire populations - at
whom to point the finger of blame, the issue of Hitler's Final
Solution and the thinking that gave birth to it have worrying new
resonance. Rarely has the 'warning from history' been so acute, nor
the refrain 'never again', been so heartfelt. Above all, Mobilising
Hate is the story of how the Nazis spawned a vision of 'us' and
'them', that taken to its logical conclusion, spelled a death
sentence for millions. Hitler may have lacked an early masterplan
for the mass extermination of Europe's Jews, but it would be his
zealously constructed policies and unflinching determination to see
them through to the bitter end that would make it impossible for
his Nazi Holocaust not to happen. That the Jews should face total
extermination was Hitler's biggest, proudest prophecy, and the one
he moved mountains to make come true, no matter the cost.
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