Mobilising Hate

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A highly readable thesis of how ordinary people were turned into monsters by the malevolent propaganda of Hitler and his henchmen . . . A very good book -- Saul David * Telegraph * Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and utterly absorbing examination of one of the most terrible events in world history. Martin Davidson's meticulous and scholarly research and exquisite writing has provided us with one of the most important books ever written on the subject -- James Holland Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Absorbing, highly readable and painstakingly researched . . . An intensely personal exploration of the banality of evil. -- Niall Ferguson A powerful new analysis of the strategies employed by the Nazis to fuel antisemitism in Germany and achieve their murderous objectives ... [Davidson's] ideas draw on 70 years of sound Holocaust research, and they are passionately and eloquently argued. * BBC History Magazine * Davidson is a dramatic storyteller with a powerful voice. His driving narrative tells the story of Hitler's Final Solution in a compelling manner * The Times Literary Supplement * Praise for The Perfect Nazi: One of the most unsettling books to have been written about the Third Reich not only because of the brutality with which it engages but because of the story of the hatching of great wickedness in a most prosaic life. If there ever was a personification of the banality of evil, it is Martin Davidson's Granpa Bruno. It is two stories in one - both riveting - that of the dentist's transformation into unswerving SS officer and of the grandson's appalled discovery. Woven together they make for unforgettable, haunting reading. -- Simon Schama Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Searching for the truth about his German grandfather, Martin Davidson discovered Hitler's Everyman: the enthusiastic fascist functionary, unquestioning, unrepentant, and chillingly ordinary. The Perfect Nazi is a fascinating and extraordinary journey into the banality of evil at the heart of Nazism. -- Ben MacIntyre Praise for The Perfect Nazi: The fascinating and utterly compelling account of what it's like to discover that your grandfather was a ruthless officer in Hitler's SS. -- Philip Kerr Praise for The Perfect Nazi: A terrific piece of writing . . . The ordinariness of the man, combined with the fact that he was an "old fighter", make him a compelling example of willing Germans. His postwar life and the absence of any reflection or remorse are also strikingly familiar from other cases we know. [The Perfect Nazi] deserves to do well. -- David Cesarani Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Davidson's journey into his grandfather's past makes for a compelling and unsettling tale . . . [A] thoughtful and affecting book. -- Dominic Sandbrook Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Fascinating . . . Davidson has pulled together an account which is compelling and yet, at times, tantalizingly incomplete . . . this is an important book for anyone interested in the moral climate which led to the Holocaust and the other crimes of the Third Reich, and I can highly recommend it. -- Adrian Weale * Evening Standard * Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Riveting. * The Times * Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Fascinating, scrupulously researched, compelling. * The Sunday Times * Praise for The Perfect Nazi: Brave, engrossing, shocking. * Herald * In this highly original work, Martin Davidson expertly drills into the dark core of the Nazi catastrophe. He locates the dynamic of the regime in Hitler's virulent hatreds: no Hitler, no Holocaust. -- Chris Hale, author of Deception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe