"From Darwin to the Death Camps. "

The Holocaust in the words of survivor Elie Wiesel is"unimaginable. " Most of the memoir and research of the Holocaustfocuses [and rightly so]on the voice of the victim but for thisbook I chose to zero in on the voice and portrayal of theperpetrator, the "ordinary German " vis-a-vis Hitler 's secretaryTraudl Junge, as well as the Death Camp bureaucrat Adolph Eichmannand the careerist Albert Speer to name a few. As a professor andscholar I have always been fascinated by the everyday existencethat many SS and Wehrmacht soldiers went about their lives after aday at a place like Auschwitz or Treblinka. The horror of amachine-like death camp administration and business fits apostmodern matrix of banality and commonality that makes the SS andGermans involved in Hitlers ' "Final Solution " more frighteningbecause they are not the "monsters " we want them to be but averagepeople making their way in a system that espoused "murder foradvancement " in the Death Camp heirarchy of those dreadedconcentration lagers in Hitler and Himmler 's Nazi Germany.