Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 / Saul Friedlander ; abridged by Orna Kenan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

Contributor:

Kenan, Orna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Jews.

Germany.

History.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

Jews--Persecutions.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 482 pages : maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2009]

Summary:

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedlander's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

The book's first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedlander also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves-and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens who, in general, stood silent and unmoved by the increasing waves of segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, and violence.

The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews-an official program that depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, the passivity of the populations, and the willingness of the victims to submit in desperate hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise.

A monumental, multifaceted study now contained in a single volume, Saul Friedlander's Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an essential study of a dark and complex history.

Contents:

Part 1 Persecution (January 1933-August 1939)

1 Into the Third Reich: January 1933-December 1933 3

2 The Spirit of the Laws: January 1934-February 1936 32

3 Ideology and Card Index: March 1936-March 1938 61

4 Radicalization: March 1938-November 1938 87

5 A Broken Remnant: November 1938-September 1939 111

Part 2 Terror (September 1939-December 1941)

6 Poland Under German Rule: September 1939-April 1940 143

7 A New European Order: May 1940-December 1940 171

8 A Tightening Noose: December 1940-June 1941 200

9 The Eastern Onslaught: June 1941-September 1941 229

10 The "Final Solution": September 1941-December 1941 259

Part 3 Shoah (January 1942-May 1945)

11 Total Extermination: January 1942-June 1942 287

12 Total Extermination: July 1942-March 1943 316

13 Total Extermination: March 1943-October 1943 345

14 Total Extermination: Fall 1943-Spring 1944 374

15 The End: March 1944-May 1945 395.

Notes:

"Abridged edition of Saul Friedlander's two volume history of Nazi Germany and the Jews"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780061350276

0061350273

OCLC:

232392045