anti-Semitism inspired and moved many thousands of 'ordinary' Germans--and would have moved millions more, had they been appropriately positioned--to slaughter Jews. It is not economic hardships, it is not the coercive apparatus of a dictatorial state, it is not psychological pressure, nor invariable psychological propensities, but unfounded horrendous ideas about the Jews that had been pervading Germany for many decades, that induced 'ordinary' Germans to kill unarmed, defenceless Jewish men, women and children by the thousands, in a streamlined manner systematically and without any pity whatsoever. Let me conclude the first part of this review with a poem by Francis Duggan titled 'The Victim': from V Sundaram: News Today: Lest we forget-I
from V Sundaram: News Today: Lest we forget-II
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