ABSTRACT
Baschwitz's fourth and further books for a wider audience all concerned the fourth ‘P’: mass persecution. They explored the universal social and psychological processes involved. They were inspired by the emerging Nazi persecution of ethnic Jews, from which Baschwitz himself was forced to hide in The Netherlands, after very narrowly escaping deportation to the east and certain death. However, the books nominally focused on a historical study of witch-hunts, which had plagued Europe centuries earlier.
