Full name: The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939

Author: Saul Friedlander Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060928780 0060928786

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. Similar books: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers by Christopher R. Browning The War Against the Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz The Good Old Days by Ernst Klee The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg The Abandonment of the Jews by David S. Wyman Kristallnacht by Martin Gilbert Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes The Holocaust by Leni Yahil The Holocaust Chronicle by David Aretha The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith We Remember the Holocaust by David A. Adler