Dear Colleague,
   During the past two years, I've been pushing forward--presenting my latest insights and conclusions, sometimes in just a few sentences or terse paragraphs. Upon reflection, I realize many of you don't know the foundation for my ideas; the bedrock from which they have arisen.
   Over the past twenty years I've authored nearly one-hundred scholarly papers on Hitler, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust---nd other episodes of collective violence. Many were presented at scholarly and professional conferences (often as keynote addresses). They appear on my website here.
   I published in "refereed journals" as a younger scholar. But since developing this Newsletter, I've seen no reason for this. Each of Newsletter I publish here is read by 2000+ people, probably more people than read an article in a journal in its lifetime.  

   I'm presenting brief summaries (see below) of some of my papers. To read, simply click the link below. These papers are the bedrock out of which my conclusions have emerge.
Best regards,
Richard Koenigsberg

PS: My collaborator, Andrew Hammer, is a computer engineer. Based on statistical analysis, he discovered (in a day, would have taken me a year) that the Newsletters published here (authored by myself and selected scholars) have been opened over 2.5 million times in the past five years. I'm intent on reaching the most insightful scholars in the world. If you are reading this Newsletters, perhaps you are one of them.
 

Hitler, War—and the Holocaust (Paper)

Hitler created the Holocaust based on his understanding of warfare as the occasion when nations sacrifice their soldiers. “If I don’t mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without the slightest regret for the spilling of precious German blood,” he declared, “then I naturally also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.” The Holocaust grew out of Hitler's "insight." If he as a national leader had the right to order German soldiers to die, he reasoned, why did he not also have the right to require Jews—mortal enemies of the German people—to die?