"From Darwin to the Death Camps. "

The Holocaust in the words of survivor Elie Wiesel is"unimaginable. " Most of the memoir and research of the Holocaustfocuses [and rightly so]on the voice of the victim but for thisbook I chose to zero in on the voice and portrayal of theperpetrator, the "ordinary German " vis-a-vis Hitler 's secretaryTraudl Junge, as well as the Death Camp bureaucrat Adolph Eichmannand the careerist Albert Speer to name a few. As a professor andscholar I have always been fascinated by the everyday existencethat many SS and Wehrmacht soldiers went about their lives after aday at a place like Auschwitz or Treblinka. The horror of amachine-like death camp administration and business fits apostmodern matrix of banality and commonality that makes the SS andGermans involved in Hitlers ' "Final Solution " more frighteningbecause they are not the "monsters " we want them to be but averagepeople making their way in a system that espoused "murder foradvancement " in the Death Camp heirarchy of those dreadedconcentration lagers in Hitler and Himmler 's Nazi Germany.

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The Holocaust in the words of survivor Elie Wiesel is "unimaginable. " Most of the memoir and research of the Holocaust focuses [and rightly so] on the voice of the victim but for this book I chose to zero in on the voice and portrayal of the perpetrator, the "ordinary German " vis-a-vis Hitler 's secretary Traudl Junge, as well as the Death Camp bureaucrat Adolph Eichmann and the careerist Albert Speer to name a few. As a professor and scholar I have always been fascinated by the everyday existence that many SS and Wehrmacht soldiers went about their lives after a day at a place like Auschwitz or Treblinka. The horror of a machine-like death camp administration and business fits a postmodern matrix of banality and commonality that makes the SS and Germans involved in Hitlers ' "Final Solution " more frightening because they are not the "monsters " we want them to be but average people making their way in a system that espoused "murder for advancement " in the Death Camp heirarchy of those dreaded concentration lagers in Hitler and Himmler 's Nazi Germany.