This book offers a unique perspective on Nazi Germany – that of a non-fiction historical thriller. Given the indisputable fact that this book covers enormous and horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and the Allied Powers, this book can also be viewed as a true crime thriller.
Every thriller (whether fiction or non-fiction) is ultimately about a battle between Good and Evil. Sometimes it is a local battle, sometimes – a global one. In the latter case, it if often an existential battle where the very survival of the whole human civilization is at stake.
This book is no exception. Although it is not exactly about a battle between Good and Evil (both sides in this battle committed acts that can be rightfully classified as “Good” and those that can be rightfully viewed as “Evil” – and on a grand scale), it is still about the existential war that took place in the first half of the XX century.
We know precisely (to a day) when this war started and when it ended. It began on November 7th, 1917 when the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Provisional Government and seized power in the Russian Republic.
And ended on August 9th, 1945 when the third American atomic bomb – The Fat Man – exploded over Nagasaki and finally put an end to Stalin’s ambitions to conquer the world and transform it into the global Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Nazi Germany and its Führer Adolf Hitler played a crucial, an absolutely vital role in this existential war. The war for the very survival, for the very existence of Germany, Europe, the Christian Church, the whole Christian Civilization and the whole global human civilization as we know it.
In fact, the whole raison d’être of Nazi Germany (the Third Reich) was to fight this war – and to win it. Which they did – albeit at horrendous cost.
Adolf Hitler and Nazis were right on one vital issue – they were fighting the existential war. They were, however, totally wrong about its nature and essence (it was no “racial war” and Jews had nothing to do with it whatsoever) – and because of this fundamental (and not exactly honest) error committed enormous and horrible war crimes and crimes against humanity (which hurt them, not helped them in this existential war).
Consequently, although this book will cover all key aspects and components of Nazi Germany and its environment (it is a comprehensive guide, after all) it will be structured around this existential war.
In other words, I will focus primarily on how Nazi Germany (and personally Adolf Hitler) were fighting this war, where this war came from and what they did to win it. And how and why they won it, of course.