This is a very grim book which I doubt I would have read had it not been written by the always brilliant Richard Rhodes ("The Making of the Atomic Bomb" etc). It’s a short history of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen, special para-military units who followed the German troops into Eastern Europe and basically killed everyone the Nazis didn't like.
There are plenty of harrowing eye-witness accounts of massacres and other "Aktions" along with detailed profiles of Hitler and Himmler plus a chapter trying to explain how people can become cold-blooded killers.
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