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A review by ronanmcd
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee
4.0
The banality of evil - history is told about the towering evil doers.
This book fills a huge gap. The Second World War saw killing on an industrial scale.
There was some retribution, but many if not most got away with the atrocities. This was especially the case for the managers who put the systems into place that made genocide feasible. Systems architects, engineers and lawyers made the framework in which the Final Solution could happen. The ordinary Nazi strung along on nationalistic hype, with an ever more eroded morality, could become an officiator for the murderous regime, and do it as a day job.
Those stories are not told. This one is.
This book fills a huge gap. The Second World War saw killing on an industrial scale.
There was some retribution, but many if not most got away with the atrocities. This was especially the case for the managers who put the systems into place that made genocide feasible. Systems architects, engineers and lawyers made the framework in which the Final Solution could happen. The ordinary Nazi strung along on nationalistic hype, with an ever more eroded morality, could become an officiator for the murderous regime, and do it as a day job.
Those stories are not told. This one is.