About the book: 2011 / This book is dedicated to the history of the regime created in Germany by Hitler and the National Socialists, from the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939 and before Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945. The author combines narration, description and analysis with an attempt to convey the atmosphere of the time, turning to the diaries and letters of both German soldiers and ordinary Germans who remained outside the combat zone. The book gives comprehensive answers to how the policy of genocide was carried out, which fit well into the context of Nazi racial policy towards the Slavs and other nationalities and social minorities. This is the final book of the three-volume series, which opens with the book “The Third Reich. The birth of an empire. 1920-1933" and continued with the publication "The Third Reich. Days of triumph. 1933-1939».