Penetrates nowhere near the root of the Holocaust: namely, the philosophical ideas that led to it.The "certain ideas" that led Germany inevitably to Auschwitz are not addressed anywhere in this moronic volume, whose author in fact subscribes to every last one of them. Those ideas were, and are, nothing more than variations of the fundamental atheistic creed that human beings answer to no moral authority higher than their own "nature." The Founding Father of the Third Reich was the totalitarian Aristotle, who was worshipped by Rand and her sycophantic followers.The controversial aspect is how these ideas are being accepted right now, in America today.Warning: this creed has many guilty friends on the left and on the right, as can be seen in the truly bizarre responses below. But they don't have a leg to stand on (as can also be seen)!