The Origins of Nazi Violence By Enzo Traverso ; Translated by Janet Lloyd

Despite the range of detailed histories on the Holocaust, there have been few attempts to trace the ideological and historical background of what is, for many, the defining event of the 20th century. In this successor to Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, Traverso rejects the belief that the Holocaust was an historical aberration, completely outside the trajectory of Western civilization.