On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all German casualties. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, few English-language publications of the last thirty-five years have addressed these pivotal events. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians.

The story of Hitler's formative experiences as a soldier on the Western Front - now told in full for the first time, presenting a radical revision of Hitler's own account of this time in Mein Kampf.

Dr. Kluver wrote "Was It Hitler's War" in 1983; however a large part of the documentation in the British Archives were still unavailable to him due to the 50 year ban on public release. In 1992 and 1993 Dr. Kluver returned to the British Archives when the 50 year ban had expired to delve more deeply into the responsibility for the Second World War. He then published his findings in a new book entitled "Es War Nicht Hitler's Krieg" (It Was NOT Hitler's War). Following his death in 1998 the book moldered as it had never been published in English, and was generally unknown to American researchers. Dr. von Peters, has translated it into English in a first English edition so that the new "smoking guns" found in the British Archives might become common knowledge. One can view it as a continuation of Dr. David Hoggan's "The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed" - research into the diplomatic correspondence among the Allies in setting off the war. There is no longer any reality in blaming Hitler for World War II when it was deliberately begun to destroy both the Germany and the National Socialist State, and, in a larger context, traditional European Christianity.