I thought I knew a fair amount about the Holocaust but I was wrong. Dan Stone's book, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History details how widespread antisemitism was throughout Europe and how the Nazis found enthusiastic sadists and killers in every country. In some countries, the slaughter took place even though there was no Nazi occupation. There's a myth that the killing mostly occurred in the death camps, in a planned, industrial-like manner. It was far more brutal, and intimate... face-to-face, with bullets shot at close range, with bodies falling into pits. The barbarism boggles the mind, and you just know that today, in much of the world, including America, there are many who would gleefully execute their fellow citizens.

Peter T.