A Deadly Legacy : German Jews and the Great War / Tim Grady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grady, Tim, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Germany.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish.

Jewish soldiers--Germany--History--20th century.

Jewish soldiers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital food supplies. However, Grady's research goes much deeper: he shows that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany's warfare, but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy that enabled Hitler's rise to power and planted the seeds of the Holocaust to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Precedents

2. War Enthusiasm

3. Total War

4. Annexations

5. Celebrating Destruction

6. The 'Other'

7. Breakdown

8. Myths of Defeat

9. The End

Epilogue

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23123-7

OCLC:

1129179569