Christopher Hale

En 1938, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una expedición nazi partía de la india británica en una misión auspiciada por el Reichsfürer de las SS, Heinrich Himmler. Su objetivo: descubrir los

I suppose you know who I am? I was in charge of the actions in Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. I am prepared to sell you one million Jews: Goods for blood Blood for goods. These were the chilling words uttered by one of the most notorious Nazi bureaucrats, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, to a young Jewish businessman called Joel Brand in the spring of 1944. Brand embarked on a desperate mission to persuade the Allies to barter with Eichmann and failed. At the same time, the SS deported hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau packed in cattle trains. The majority were gassed, then incinerated. For decades after 1945, many blamed the Allies for callously abandoning a million Hungarian Jews to their fate. In Deception, Christopher Hale presents a new account of the Brand Mission based on evidence in the national archives of Germany, Hungary, Britain and the United States. Hale reveals that Eichmanns offer formed one part of a monstrous deception designed to outwit the leaders of the last surviving Jewish community in Europe. The deception was more complex and from the German point of view more successful than any operation mounted by the secret services of the Allied governments.

The Malayan Emergency (194860) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared war without a name had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider the Emergency an exemplary, even inspiring, counterinsurgency conflict. Massacre in Malaya draws on recently released files from British archives, as well as eyewitness accounts from both the government forces and communist fighters, to challenge this view. It focuses on the notorious Batang Kali Massacre known as Britains My Lai that took place in December, 1948, and reveals that British tactics in Malaya were more ruthless than many historians concede.Counterinsurgency in Malaya, as in Kenya during the same period, depended on massive resettlement programmes and ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate aerial bombing and ruthless exploitation of aboriginal peoples, the Orang Asli. The Emergency was a discriminatory war. In Malaya, the British built a brutal and pervasive security state and bequeathed it to modern Malaysia. The Malayan Emergency was a bitterly fought war that still haunts the present.

In Hitlers Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmlers secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of Germanic peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an SS Europa. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europes dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism.Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers like any other and fought a decent war against Stalins Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmlers murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future SS Europa. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmlers monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler and to the downfall of the man once known as loyal Heinrich.

En 1938, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una expedición nazi partía de la india británica en una misión auspiciada por el Reichsfürer de las SS, Heinrich Himmler. Su objetivo: descubrir los

En 1938, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una expedición nazi partía de la india británica en una misión auspiciada por el Reichsfürer de las SS, Heinrich Himmler. Su objetivo: descubrir los