''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
''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
By 1942, it was an article of faith that what the Nazis called ''The Jewish Question'' had only one answer: the mass extermination of an entire people. Six million European Jews were savagely murdered as a result of this perverted but profoundly held convictio