As Philippe Sands writes in this indispensable book, “international law offered few constraints on the majority’s treatment of minorities and no rights for individuals."
The German War draws on a wealth of firsthand testimony provided by German soldiers in their personal diaries, court records and military correspondence.
Given Poland’s denial of the mass murder in Jedwabne, journalist Anna Bikont’s new investigative work, winner of a National Jewish Book Award, is especially important.
In his controversial new history of the Holocaust, Timothy Snyder argues that anti-Semitism cannot fully explain the behavior of those involved in the murder of the Jews.
Drawing on the opened Vatican archives covering Pius XI’s papacy, this invaluable book sheds light on the pope’s early support for Mussolini as well as the Vatican’s institutional…
Both an Arab nationalist and an Islamic fundamentalist, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini sided with Nazi Germany during World War II and agitated against the Jews.