In "An Uncompromising Generation," Michael Wildt follows the
journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics--who
came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society--as they
started to identify with the Nazi concept of "Volksgemeinschaft,"
which labeled Jews as enemies of the people and justified their
murder.
Wildt's study traces the intellectual evolution of key members of
the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from their days as students
until the end of World War II. Established in 1939, this office
fused together the Gestapo, the Criminal Police, and the
"Sicherheitsdienst" (Security Service) of the SS. Far from being
small cogs in a big bureaucratic machine, Wildt finds that the
people who made up the RSHA constructed the concepts and operated
the apparatus that carried out the Holocaust.
At the center of both theory and practice of persecution and
genocide in Nazi-occupied Europe, these young men of the RSHA--none
of whom envisioned the systematic annihilation of the European
Jews--became radicalized. How this occurred is the central question
of Wildt's book. Wildt also discusses the postwar careers of the
members of the RSHA. Strikingly, he shows how the leaders of the
RSHA evaded the consequences of their actions under the Nazi regime
and went on to have important careers in the rebuilt West Germany.
An alternate selection of the History Book Club and Military
Book Club
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