A review of Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Peter Pulzer tries to understand how the Nazis had such mass appeal, and finds a new book proposing that the ideology of "redemptive anti-Semitism", coupled with a range of circumstances - fear of Bolshevism, the Wall Street Crash - begin to explain "why so many Germans and other Europeans went along with Hitler's war".
Times Literary Supplement 2 Jan 2008
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