The unwritten order : Hitler's role in the final solution

The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reasonthere is no other example in which a minority was annihilated so systematically on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government.

Through the recent discovery of documents, the central role that Hitler played in the persecution and murder of the European Jews can be proved much more conclusively than was possible just a few years ago."