Publisher's Synopsis
In Volume III, questions and themes such as the following are asked and studied -Can Germans Be Defined as Insane and Evil Because of Their Ardent Support of Hitler?Hitler - "You Know, I Was Not Born an Anti-Semite. I Learned to Be an Anti-Semite."Henriette von Schirach - The Only German Who Directly Protested to Hitler For His Maltreatment of the JewsIn addition, there are -Conversations with the Tortured Mind of Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein. "Finally, I Wish to End with This. We Are A Nation of Over Eighty Million Judas's. I Am the First to Stand up and Confess. May We All Remember this Finale Fate."Conversations with Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski - "It Took Me a Long Time to Realize That the Logical Consequence of Our Ideology Was the Extermination of Slavs And Jews."Conversations with General Wilhelm Keitel - "Just Because Others Committed Criminal Acts Does Not Mean That I Too Should be Branded a Murderer! I Can Only Say That I Passed on His Orders."Conversations with Hermann Goering - "I Was Told of Ongoing Excesses, of Systematic Abuses Happening in Every Camp, But I Could Not Arrest Each and Every Officer."Conversations with Joachim von Ribbentrop - "Hitler Is Still a Puzzle to Me. I Cannot Understand it. He Is A Vegetarian, you know. He Could Not Bear to Eat A Dead Animal, Calling Us Leichenfresser [Corpse Eaters]. Now Could A Man Like That Order Mass Murder?"Conversations with Albert Speer - "I was Not Aware nor Was I Responsible for the Mortality Rates for Our [Slave] Workers."Conversations with Franz Stangl - "I Knew They Were Jews. It Was a Mass — A Mass of Rotting Flesh. Wirth Asked Me "What Shall We Do with This Garbage?" I Think Unconsciously That Started Me Thinking of Them as Cargo."Conversation with Unterscharführer Franz Suchomel - "Jews Cut Their Veins or They Just Died; They Were Half-Dead or Half-Crazy by The Time They Were Unloaded.".
