Europe's inner demons

also Columbus Centre Series Studies in the Dynamics of Persecution and Extermination

General Editor: Norman Cohn

Anthony Storr

HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS

“Dr. Storr’s book fulfills the difficult task of providing the basic theoretical framework necessary for the understanding of the series as a whole… he puts forward the view that there is a strong potential for cruelty and destructiveness in every human being.”— The (London) Times Educational Supplement.

Henry V. Dicks

LICENSED MASS MURDER

A Socio-Psychological Study of Some SS Killers

“Dicks, a British psychiatrist who has specialized in studies of Fascist mentality, conducted interviews with eight convicted war criminals serving life sentences for mass murder. . Certainly this provocative work should be in all collections which have any concern with the dynamics of social psychology and the possibilities for lessening human destructiveness.”—Library Journal

Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon

THE DESTINY OF EUROPE’S GYPSIES

“An amazing book, a chronicle of murders of Gypsies, both systematic and casual, which are characteristic of every Christian century, and which reached a high point under the Nazis. At the end, the reader is just numb, perhaps hoping that the research could be challenged: I cannot challenge it.”—Stuart Hampshire, Observer.

Leon Poliakov

THE ARYAN MYTH

A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas In Europe “A scholarly examination. Poliakov analyzes the nature of pagan memories and dynastic ambition which culminated in pride of ancestry in five principal European nations, and its relationship to the notion of superior and inferior races. Recommended.”—Booklist

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