Prologue to annihilation : ordinary American and British Jews challenge the Third Reich / Stephen H. Norwoord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Stephen H. (Stephen Harlan), 1951- author.

Series:

Studies in antisemitism.

Studies in Antisemitism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions--Press coverage--United States.

Jews--Persecutions--Press coverage--Great Britain.

Nazis--Press coverage--United States.

Nazis.

Nazis--Press coverage--Great Britain.

Jews--United States--Attitudes.

Jews--Great Britain--Attitudes.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Foreign public opinion, American.

Germany.

Germany--Foreign public opinion, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous of ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the Final Solution and how Nazi annihilationist intentions were clearly discernible even during the earliest years of Hitler's rule. Further, Norwood looks at the nature and impact of American and British Jewish resistance to Nazi persecution and the efforts of Jews at the grassroots level to press Jewish organizations to respond more forcefully to the Nazi menace. He examines the worldwide protest and boycott movements against Germany and German goods as well as mass demonstrations by working-class and lower-middle-class Jews in many American and British cities. Prologue to Annihilation details how the events of 1930-1936 tested American and British societies' willingness to accept Nazism and its anti-Jewish philosophy and illuminates the divisions that existed even within the Jewish community about how best to challenge Nazi antisemitic policies and atrocities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Foundations of the final solution

Portents : September 1930 to January 1933

Barbarism and entrapment : The Cold Pogrom, 1933-1934

A tidal wave of protest : March to May 1933

The escalation of Judaea's war against Nazism : May to December 1933

Exposing and boycotting the Third Reich : 1934

Disaster for the Jews : The Saar Plebiscite, January 1935

Entertaining Nazi warriors in America and Britain : 1934-1936

Degradation, appeasement, and looming catastrophe : 1935

Epilogue: Defeats, 1936-1939.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253053626

0253053625

9780253053633

0253053633

OCLC:

1245250562