"Where did this power come from? Where did this destructive pressure come from? The mass National Socialist movement came from the depths of German society, defeated Weimar democracy and plunged Europe into chaos of ruin and death... In the Third Reich, the utopia of a racial state under the power of a charismatic leader. Here, within the “people’s body,” everything “alien” and “harmful” was eradicated, from here the war of extermination rushed to the territories of other states.” Entire generations of historians have been and are still engaged in searching for the roots of the destructive forces of National Socialism. This book is another attempt to explain how European states allowed this “death machine” to work, why it achieved such greatness and yet was doomed.