Yehuda Bauer is arguably one of the most profound authors of the Holocaust and Jewish history. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to Israel where he completed his high school years and later attended Cardiff University where he studied Jewish history on a full scholarship. He returned to Israel and continued his higher studies at the Hebrew University. Bauer received his doctorate in 1960 for a dissertation on the British Mandate in Palestine and was the founder of the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In total, Bauer has published more than 25 books on Jewish history and the events surrounding the Holocaust. Bauer, being Jewish himself, was significantly more sympathetic toward Jewish people, but this is not uncommon in Holocaust literature. Yehuda Bauer was a very skilled writer, based on his experience and training on the Holocaust and Jewish history in general. The History of the Holocaust, written by Yehuda Bauer in the early 1980s, is a comprehensive history of the Holocaust and surrounding details about Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish way of life before the Holocaust. Mr. Bauer begins the book with a general overview of “Who are the Jews?” and how their story led to the Jewish Holocaust. The emergence of the Jews is a set of controversial, confusing and contradictory theories. Bauer then goes on to explain how devastating the rise of anti-Semitism has been for Jews. One of the most devastating blows to the Jewish people was the rise of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism was based on Christian anti-Judaism: "The accusation of deicide, the myth of overcoming, the alleged moral turpitude and deserved punishment resulting from the rejection of Jesus Christ as Messiah, as well as the economic situation... ... middle of paper ... how did the Nazi government decide on a policy of complete extermination of the Jewish population of Europe? In his description of the decision, Bauer reasoned that since "the United States, the only major Western power still neutral, had not previously protested against the treatment of the Jews," there appeared to be "no objection from the part of a government. international point of view to an intensification of Nazi brutality. Donald L. Niewyk, author of The Holocaust, believed that the decision to exterminate the Jews was a decision of last resort. That there was a "plan to deport European Jews to Madagascar" which appeared "to have been operational until October 1940", but "was simply not feasible" since the island was not under German control . This deprived the German Nazis of feasible options, so the only possible option was to completely exterminate the breed..