David Cesarani was een Engelse historicus die gespecialiseerd was in de Joodse geschiedenis, met name de Holocaust. Zijn werk richtte zich op het begrijpen van complexe historische gebeurtenissen en hun impact. Door middel van zijn onderzoek trachtte hij cruciale momenten in de Joodse geschiedenis te belichten. Zijn analyses droegen bij aan een dieper begrip van dit belangrijke onderzoeksveld.
The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but our understanding of the accepted narrative has rarely, if ever, been questioned. David Cesarani's sweeping reappraisal challenges accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany and the inevitability of the 'final solution'.
"This book is the first to use the new archival sources to examine the record of the 'free world' during the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews, and ask why so little was done to help the Jews. Acclaimed historians and new researchers from round the world reveal how much Britain, the SUA, Switzerland, and Sweden knew about the fate of the Jews and explains why only a few, exceptional individuals understood the catastrophe that was unfolding." -- BOOK JACKET.
He explains how new research demonstrates that the massive ethnic cleansing Eichmann conducted in argues controversially that Eichmann was not necessarily predisposed to mass murder, exploring the remarkable, largely unknown period in Eichmann's career when he learned how to become a perpetrator of genocide.