Michelle's Reviews > The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution

I don't know where to write this critique but in a chapter on the Nazi Empire by this author I found some stunning manipulation of information- not a single word of the NDH (Greater Croatia) a technical puppet state of the Nazi Empire, and the extremely brutal genocide the Croatians Ustasha committed against hundreds of thousands, yet the author felt compelled to bring up Slobodan Milosevic by falsely attributing the term ethnic cleansing to him. Paul Mojzes has stated that the term was actually created in the early 1800s by a Serb poet named Vuk Kazaradic. The term was later employed by the American ruling class in the 1990s to describe one particular case, strictly Serb atrocities, as opposed to Croat atrocities or any others. In other words the term was entirely employed for political reasonings- to promote the interests of America. The promotion of western geopolitics and its narratives, the complete omission of very relevant topics and the inclusion of lesser relevant ones, is certainly evident in Browning's work. The politicization of genocide is reprehensible.