This war is the great race war - in Hermann Göring's martial words from October 1942, the will of the Nazi regime to relentlessly pursue the extermination of European Jews is reflected - even if it meant their own downfall. Radical anti-Semitism and racial hatred, as this impressive overview shows, were the ideological driving forces behind the war policy of the Third Reich and led to an unprecedented escalation of violence. Based on Hitler's confessions in "Mein Kampf," Birthe Kundrus illustrates the devastating effects of Nazi expansionism and traces how the regime abandoned all standards of humanity during the course of World War II.