Why do mass-murdering regimes, from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and today’s Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party, become self-absorbed on documenting their brutality, tortures, and genocidal killings?
It was the question that arose as I read “The Devil’s Diary” (HarperCollins), published on March 29, 2016. The book about the diary of one of the least known Nazi leaders covers a lot of ground, some of it familiar, much of it new. It includes how Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg’s diary was recovered after it went missing more than 60 years ago at the Nuremberg Trials.
The book makes a convincing case that the Final Solution—the liquidation of European Jews—came from Alfred Rosenberg.
