Forged in fury

Forged in fury by Michael Elkins. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780345021625.

From early 1941 to April 1945, between three and six million Jews were butchered -- mostly in Eastern Europe -- by citizens of the Third Reich and those like-minded Christians who co-operated with them. This book tells of the war, the people, the SS officers, the Jewish ghettos, the concentration camps, the resistance, the heroism and the horror. In particular it follows the lives of the Jewish men and women who, in 1945, formed an organization called DIN or "judgment", whose mission it was to avenge those millions of Jews murdered by the Germans. Between 1945 and 1946 DIN was responsible for over 1,000 deaths. This strange, secret organization continued to exist for more than three decades, in Europe, Israel and elsewhere. At its peak its members comprised farmers, merchants, journalists, government officials, a poet, even ministers of religion, all sharing the same voluntary and consuming task -- to hunt and kill.