Author:Saul Friedlander Binding: Paperback Published: 1998-03-10 ISBN: 0060928786 Availability:
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A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?
Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new archival findings, Saul Friedlander restores the voices of Jews who, after the 1933 Nazi accession to power, were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality. We hear from the persecutors themselves: the leaders of the Nazi party, the members of the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies, the university elites, and the heads of the business community. Most telling of all, perhaps, are the testimonies of ordinary German citizens, who in the main acquiesced to increasing waves of dismissals, segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, expulsion, and violence.
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a pretty good Holocaust resource:
I thought this book was good but I don't think it lived up to the hype it that received. There's not a whole lot of new opinion or information. On the other hand, I'm currently reading "The Years of Extermination" which I think is terrific so far.
History at its best:
This is a remarkable, haunting work of history. The author manages to provide an extremely thorough, and yet readable account of the many years of persecution prior to the outbreak of the war, not only in
Germany, but in other nations (especially as they began to receive refugees). What Friedlander does particularly well is abandon a strictly chronological approach for a much more challenging method. Using voices from within the regime and among the oppressed, he gradually pulls the individual... more info
Among the best of the best -- both volumes:
Among the best of the best -- both volumes. Among the many Holocaust and Nazi Germany scholars who praise these volumes as fundamentally important books is Yehuda Bauer. He includes an analysis of the first volume in his book "Rethinking the Holocaust" (2001).
A fascinating account of German Jewry from in the 1930s:
Before I say anything about this book, I should mention that I was lucky enough to have Saul Friedlander as my professor at UCLA. The class was called "The Third Reich and the Jews" and it was easily one of the three or four best classes I took at UCLA. As for the book itself, it provides the reader with an overview of the deteriorating status and living conditions of German Jews during the 1930s, under the anti-Jewish Nazi regime. This volume details the collapse of German Jewry as an organized society... more info
