Cohen - Tears of Blood: Surviving the Holocaust, The Horrible History of the Third Reich

A moment in history,the infamous tyranny that was Nazism rightfully claimed the attention of the civilized world. Currently, ISIS, is following a similar path of Hate towards the Christians and Jews.

Everywherepeople of good will seek to understand the conditions that created such a despotic dictator as Adolph Hitler and unleashed the Nazi nightmare of brutality and sadism.

The evil committed by the Third Reich still lingers abroad in the world. The lesser tyrants of that day still seek to keep alive their philosophy of hate and destruction. Today, the new generation that has grown to manhood must know the full extent of Nazi barbarism if it is not to rise again. The more light focused on the truth of the Nazi tyrannythe better decent men can recognize the dangers of its rebirth.

This book recounts the period of darkness when the Nazi tyranny almost conquered the free world. The lesson it teaches must constantly be learned if civilization is to survive.

In1961the attention of the world was focused on a courtroom in Jerusalem, Israel, where, sitting in the prisoner's dock, the infamous Elchmann listens to evidence charging him with the most monstrous crime ever committed against humanitythe calculated extermination of a million European Jews. There he awaits his verdict before the bar of justice and with him awaits the civilized world.

If, at this moment in time, Adolf Eichmann stands in the center of the world stage as the symbol of Nazi fanaticism and brutality, it must be remembered that he was but a part of a vast extermination machine created by Adolf Hitler in the name of the Third Reich. The tentacles of that machine extended across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia to the English Channel, from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean.

From 1933, when Hitler came to power as Chancellor of Germany until his suicide in on April 30, 1945the Nazi tyranny, unequalled in all history, murdered more than twelve million men, women and children in Germany, in the nations, and in the occupied territories. Of this number, more than eight million died in the notorious concentration camps that are now household names Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, Maidenek, Treblinka, Ravens-ruck, Mauthausen.

Such an almost inconceivable catastrophe of crimes could only be accomplished by long term planning, meticulously conceived, and scrupulously carried out. The monumental task of killing twelve million people takes much time, much machinery and great numbers of men. Of this number the Fuhrer is the source of power. The rung below Hitler were the Reich leaders-- Goebbels, Hess, Himmler, Rosenberg, Frick, Bormann, Frank, Ley. And on a lower rung, but absolutely necessary to the efficiency of the machine, was Adolf Eichmann and a vast network of officials who daily administered the extermination of the Jews, the shooting of hostages, the mass executions of civilians and the murder of political and Allied war prisoners.

That these dead shall not have died in vain is the reason why Adolf Eichmann today faces justice. But Adolf Eichmann is not the last of the unjust men of the Nazi tyranny to answer for their crimes against humanity.

Today, in Germany, in Egypt, in Argentinayes, in the United States, Nazi criminals of greater and lesser rank than Adolf Eichmann are still at large. Their crimes are told in these pages. Their justice still awaits them.

Adolph Eichmann

On November 11, 1918, in the forest of Compiegne, France, the defeated Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm signed the armistice ending the First World War. On that day a German corporal named Adolf Hitler wept.

Unable to accept the fact that the German soldier had been defeated on the battlefield, Hitler fanatically endorsed the false belief that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" by a traitorous government that had sold out its military leaders. This was the first of the false myths used by Adolf Hitler to undermine the post-war Weimar Republic and promote his own political ambitions. In the early Twenties he hammered this myth into the minds of the German people. It was not a difficult task. The German people were eager to find scapegoats for their defeat and subsequent humiliation. They convinced themselves that Hitler was right. The signers of the surrender were called the "November criminals" and they were blamed as well for the establishment of a floundering democratic government that had replaced the old autocracy of the Kaiser.

In September 1919, seeking an organization that expressed his secret convictions against the Jews and the profiteers and intriguers who had sold out Germany, Hitler attended a meeting of the German Workers Party. The Party leaders expressed his bitterness, mouthed his hatreds. He joined them and within six months established himself as their most bombastic spokesman.

A Germany seething in the convulsions of defeat and severe economic depression was fertile soil for a demagogue who saw himself as a saviour. He would avenge the wrongs done Germany. He would lead the master race to their rightful destiny.

The expansion of the German Workers Party absorbed every minute of Adolf Hitler's life. By the middle of 1921, he had ousted the original leaders and through sheer force and passion of his personality, his warped genius, he took personal control of the organization.

The program of the Party, drawn up by Hitler and his colleagues, was a catchall for the workers, the middle class and the peasants. It promised them "a union of all Germans in a Greater Germany." In a time of chaos and despair, Hitler offered emotional belief by feeding on hatred, vengeance and patriotic fervor. This promise of a Greater Germanyhe kept. It was the guiding principle of his program. Ultimately, he would use it to annex Austria and its six million Germans; to take the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia with its three million Germans; to demand the return of Danzig from Poland and other Polish areas inhabited by Germans. And what he could not take by negotiation, he would take by force. It was this goal, expressed by Hitler at a meeting in Bavaria in 1920, that eventually launched the invasion of Poland in 1939 and exploded upon the world the most devastating war in all recorded history.