The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Contributor:

Mazal Holocaust Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Antisemitism--Germany.

Antisemitism.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xviii, 460 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

Summary:

In the first part, "The Final Solution," the author "records the origins and growth of the virulent ideology that underlay the plan to annihilate the European Jews," and in the second part, "The Holocaust," she describes "the Jewish plight under German terror."--Jacket.

Contents:

pt. 1. The final solution. The Jews in Hitler's mental world

Anti-semitism in modern Germany

Phase one: anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1935

The ss: instrument of the final solution

Foreign policy, race, and war

Phase two: from internal war to world war

The annihilation camps: kingdom of death

A retrospective view

pt. 2. The holocaust. Between freedom and ghetto: the Jews in Germany, 1933-1938

Death and life in the east European ghettos

The official community: from Kehilla to Judenrat

The alternative community

The countercommunity: the political underground

Who shall live, who shall die

"For your freedom and ours"

Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1976

Other Format:

Online version: Dawidowicz, Lucy S. War against the Jews, 1933-1945.

ISBN:

003013661X

9780030136610

OCLC:

1103005