The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution" - Softcover

Laqueur, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805059849 ISBN 13: 9780805059847

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

Laqueur's new introduction, written for this paperback edition of his classic work, revives the lesson of the Holocaust and broadens our understanding of one of history's most terrible crimes.

Despite the outrage that swept the world when the Nazi death camps were first liberated in 1945, the truth about the extermination of European Jewry had been an open secret since at least 1941. Using sources and documentaries only recently made available, Walter Laqueur examines when and how information about the genocide became known to millions of Germans, international Jewish organizations, leaders of Jewish communities throughout Europe, and top government officials in neutral and Allied countries. Laying bare the lethal combination of disbelief and indifference that met this news, The Terrible Secret offers a brilliant and chilling demonstration of paralysis in the face of ultimate evil.

About this title

About the Author:

Walter Laqueur, a distinguished professor of history and eminent commentator and expert on international affairs, is a chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Review:

"A masterpiece . . . the lessons implicit in this book--a classic of justice--go far beyond the enormity of their occasion."--George Steiner

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805059849
• ISBN 13: 9780805059847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304