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Germany's Nazi-era Foreign Ministry was far more involved in the Holocaust and other crimes committed by Adolf Hitler and his regime than previously known, according to a book released in Berlin on October 25 about the organization's past.

Although Germany's Foreign Ministry has for decades attempted to paint its World War ii history as one of passive resistance against the destruction wrought by the Third Reich, the new 880-page report concludes that its diplomats were complicit in the Nazis' slaughter of the Jews. The German Foreign Ministry's involvement, according to the document, ranged from spying on Jewish-German emigrants abroad to active contribution to the mass murder of Europe's Jewish people.

The book, entitled The Office and the Past: German Diplomats in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic, was commissioned in 2005 by then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer after the organization was criticized for penning praise-heavy obituaries about its World War II-era, Nazi employees.

The book shows specific examples of German diplomats contributing to the slaughter of European Jews: Otto Abbots, Germany's Nazi-era ambassador in Paris, ordered the deportation of 2,500 French Jews to concentration camps after French partisans killed some German troops.

In another example, the ministry's head of Jewish Affairs, Franz Rademacher, requested traveling funds for a visit to Serbia to supervise the "liquidation of Jews in Belgrade," describing his trip as "official business" on the April 14, 1943, application form.

Most significantly, the study also reveals that the ministry's complicity continued long after the war's conclusion. The belief that the lion's share of German wartime diplomats were uninvolved in war crimes permitted numerous former Nazis to infest the postwar Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. According to the document, from these positions, they labored to conceal their past allegiance, to prevent each other from being smoked out, and to assist other former Nazis who were hiding themselves around the world.

Herbert W. Armstrong, editor in chief of the Trumpet's forerunner magazine, the Plain Truth, was among the first to report on the Nazis' strategy of hiding underground after the war. On May 9, 1945, he said that while the battle against Nazism had ended, the war against Nazism was not over: "We don't understand German thoroughness. From the very start of World War ii, they have considered the possibility of losing this second round, as they did the first-and they have carefully, methodically planned, in such eventuality, the third round-World War iii! [T]he Nazis have now gone underground."

Northwestern University historian Peter Hayes, who was one of the book's four authors, affirms that the German Foreign Ministry took part in this underground strategy. "I was not aware of how consciously some people in the late 1940s set about building an alibi legend for the Foreign Office," Hayes said.

A widening stream of documented evidence, like that revealed in The Office and the Past, powerfully substantiates the Bible-based statements Mr. Armstrong made all those years ago. To understand the significance of the Nazis having burrowed underground and what it is leading to, read "Is Nazism Still Alive?"

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Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe $44.83 Many books have been written about the experiences of Jews in Nazi Europe. None, however, has focused on the persecution of the most vulnerable members of the Jewish community-its children. This powerful and moving book by Deborah Dwork relates the history of these children for the first time. The book is based on hundreds of oral histories conducted with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, in Europe and North America, an extraordinary range of primary documentation uncovered by the author (including diaries, letters, photographs and family albums), and archival records. Drawing on these sources, Dwork reveals the feelings, daily activities, and perceptions of Jewish children who lived and died in the shadow of the Holocaust. She reconstructs and analyzes the many different experiences the children faced. In the early years of Nazi domination they lived at home, increasingly opposed by rising anti-Semitism. Later some went into hiding while others attempted to live openly on gentile papers. As time passed, increasing numbers were forced into transit camps, ghettos, and death and slave labor camps. Although nearly ninety percent of the Jewish children in Nazi Europe were murdered, we learn in this history not of their deaths but of the circumstances of their lives. Children with a Star is a major new contribution to the history of Europe during the Nazi era. It explains from a different perspective how European society functioned during the wary years, how the German noose tightened, and how the Jewish victims and their gentile neighbors responded. It expands the definition of resistance by examining the history of the people-primarily women-who helped Jewish children during the war. By focusing on children, it strips away rationalizations that the victims of Nazism somehow "allowed or "deserved" their punishment. And by examining the experience of children and thereby laying bare how society functions at its most fundamental level, it not only provides a unique understanding of the Holocaust but a new theoretical approach to the study of history.