The German Reich, Hitler's Wehrmacht and the "Final Solution". The author draws on the central role played by ideology, politics and war in people's lives in his description. In this way, the contexts become clear in which Adolf Hitler, the old elites who supported him and the German Wehrmacht had made it their "historical task" "to liberate the German people from the Jewish-Bolshevik danger once and for all". Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag 1989. 701 pages. Dust jacket with dampstain.