“This War is the Great Racial War”

Radical anti-Semitism and racial hatred, as this impressive study demonstrates, were the ideological driving forces behind the war policy of the Third Reich and led to an unprecedented escalation of violence. Based on Hitler’s professions in Mein Kampf, Birthe Kundrus illustrates the devastating effects of the Nazi expansionist drive and traces how the regime abandoned all humanitarian standards during the course of World War II.