Today is International
Holocaust Remembrance Day. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about what happened in the years leading up to the atrocities. The question people always ask is "how could this happen?" The following books discuss, in great detail, the events that led to
genocide in Europe.
The Coming of the Third Reich and
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 by William Sheridan Allen
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a great
website examining the history of the Holocaust, and also features resources on preventing future genocides.