(Jeffrey Herf)Boy, this is a hard book to read. If you want to be bummed out for a while, here's one for you. I mean, what do you make of a book that has "Chapter 5: 'Kill The Jews Before They Kill You'?" The reason I got this book is because Nazi propoganda for the Arab world is such a bizzare idea to me; How do you reconcile the most racist political philosophy of all time with trying to appeal to arabs and muslims? As it turns out - and here I may be saving you $16.80, without shipping - the Nazis basically implimented a region-wide "No, we don't mean YOU" program, supplemented by a finger-pointing program accusing the Jews of, well, basically everything. The book is very well researched with endless quotes from primary sources and the author certainly knows how to write, but because of the subject matter it just becomes grinding after a while; The Nazis were very one-note, and reading about how "The Jew Roosevelt" is conspiring with the Zionists, the Bolsheviks, the British, the lizard men from Neptune, the UN, the New World Order, and Rainbow Brite just gets wearying after a while. The book is educational and sobering, but by the end I was counting the pages until it was over.
Grade: :(
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