Yehuda Bauer is undoubtedly 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 attended Cardiff University where he studied Jewish history on a full scholarship. He returned to Israel and continued his graduate studies at the Hebrew University. Bauer received his PhD in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palestine and was the founder of the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In total, Bauer has published over 25 books on Jewish history and Holocaust-related events. Bauer, being Jewish himself, was decidedly more sympathetic towards the Jewish people, but this is not uncommon in Holocaust literature. Yehuda Bauer was a highly skilled writer based on his experience and training on the Holocaust and Jewish history more broadly. The History of the Holocaust, written by Yehuda Bauer in the early 1980s, is a comprehensive history of the Holocaust and the surrounding details about Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Jewish lifestyle 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 conflicting theories. Bauer then goes on to discuss how the rise of anti-Semitism has been devastating to 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 economic difficulties...... of paper...how did the Nazi government decide on a policy of global extermination of the European Jewish population?" In Bauer's description of the decision, he believed that because "the United States, the only great Western power still neutral, did not had hitherto protested the treatment of the Jews,” there appeared to be no objection from an 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 came from a last-resort decision. That there was a “plan to deport European Jews to Madagascar” that appeared “to be operational as early as October 1940,” but was “simply not feasible” since the island was not under German control. This ruled out viable options for the German Nazis, so the only possible option was to completely exterminate the race.