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The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939-1944, by Richard C. Lukas (Kentucky, 300 pp., $24)

Adolf Hitler’s demonic hatred of Jews, and his Final Solution intended to expunge them from the face of his future Aryanized Europe, have been well documented in numerous scholarly and popular histories. But, unfortunately, horrified fascination with that overriding holocaust has tended to cloud subsequent historiography of the Nazi era to the point where Hitler’s equally obsessive hatred of all Eastern European peoples has been nearly forgotten.

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The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939-1944, by Richard C. Lukas (Kentucky, 300 pp., $24)

Adolf Hitler’s demonic hatred of Jews, and his Final Solution intended to expunge them from the face of his future Aryanized Europe, have been well documented in numerous scholarly and popular histories. But, unfortunately, horrified fascination with that overriding holocaust has tended to cloud subsequent historiography of the Nazi era to the point where Hitler’s equally obsessive hatred of all Eastern European peoples has been nearly forgotten.