Chapter 25,26, and 27 Summary and Analysis

Hitler tells the Nazi leadership that the Jews will disappear from Europe. Himmler and R. Heydrich organize the ghettos and then ship Jews in box cars to the camps, euphemistically called deportation to the East. Hitler rallies the troops and prevents the Russian front from disintegrating. R. Heydrich is made chief of Bohemia and Moravia, is targeted by a resistance assassination squad and is killed. In revenge, the Nazis execute over one thousand villagers at the town of Lidice. Word seeps out in Germany of the use of gas chambers for mass murder at Belzec camp. In the spring of 1942, German forces encircle some Soviet armies. German forces head towards the Caucasus oil fields and southeast towards Stalingrad. Hitler rages against Gen. Jodl because Hitler's directive to take the Caucasus fails. He ignores the long extended flank on the...