christopher browning hat ein neues buch geschrieben. the origins of the final solution vertritt eine mir sofort einleuchtende these: "The decisive impulse was not defeat but the euphoria of victory in Russia, in the summer of 1941. It was the sense that they were invincible which persuaded the Nazis that the genocide of Soviet Jews, which they were already carrying out, could be extended to the Jews of every nation they controlled."