Very well-written, sees the unity of Germany's development experience as integrated with its social pathology. ( )

An overview of the history of Nazi racial ideology and how it was translated into the laws which systematically discriminated against all those who were not properly 'Aryan'—including Jews, Roma, Sinti, the disabled, homosexuals and Communists. It's useful for its broad overview of the era and for its reproduction of some primary documents; I think I found its methodology a little shaky however, and wasn't so keen on its emphasis on racial concerns as the only driver of the government of the Reich, ignoring gender and class based concerns. It conflates a little too much, and isn't good on distinguishing between the kinds of persecution which the Nazis inflicted on their victims—what happened to the Jews was not what happened to the Roma, and I don't think this book quite makes that clear. ( )