The book proposes answers to questions that Holocaust research has so far failed to answer:

* What did Eichmann mean when he said "I was an idealist"
   in 1952?

* Why was it the Germans of all people, the possessors of the highest
   culture in Europe at the time, who carried out the Holocaust?

* Did the Germans in the past commit deeds that are reminiscent of the way
   they acted in the Holocaust?

* Did the Germans as a collective do any soul-searching after the Holocaust
   and learn any lessons?

* Is there "another Germany" today?

* Can another Holocaust occur?

* How can another Holocaust in human history be prevented?

* Are there collectives that may commit another Holocaust? And who are
   those endangered by it, whether Jews or others?

… A year ago The Germans: Absent Nationality and the Holocaust was published. This book provides complete answers to these questions, based on the facts of German history in the centuries preceding the Holocaust. It attempts to explain the behavior of the Germans today, and also discusses the likely way in which Germany will become integrated into the European Union in future. The answers which this book provides have been reinforced from an unexpected direction – new evidence that has come to light lately, and that cannot be explained in terms of previous theories about the Holocaust.

The book is part of a study of six national collectives in Europe (the Germans, French, Italians, Spaniards, Dutch and British), and constitutes a "Copernican" revolution in the study of the Holocaust, which is here for the first time treated not as an extreme event in Jewish history ("studying the victim"), but as an integral part of the history of the Germans ("studying the criminal"), in light of which it also analyzes the Germans' behavior after the Holocaust and makes predictions concerning Germany's role in the European Union.

Israel's President, Mr. Shimon Peres, in his speech to the German Bundestag raises some difficult questions, including

How a nation can conceive of itself a "super race" while treating others worthless?

Why did the Nazis perceive the Jews as posing such a great and immediate threat?

What motivated the Nazis to allocate so many resources to their industry of murder?

Why did the Nazis continue with the Holocaust to the bitter end, even when they already realized that they would be defeated?

Was there any Jewish force in existence that could stand in the way of the "Thousand-year Reich"? How many divisions did the Jewish communities in Europe possess? How many tanks, how many warplanes, how many rifles?

The Germans: Absent Nationality and the Holocaust tries to answer these and other questions..[1] [2]

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[1] The book can be ordered directly from the current publisher: Priests Publishing.

[2] President Peres has of course no connection whatsoever to the book or this blog, and is not responsible for anything in them.