Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939

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by  Saul Friedländer

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enterprises in history the extermination of
Europe's Jews? As the century ends, a major
historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research
in this first of two volumes (the second will be The
Years of Extermination) by responding to the
challenge of that perplexing question with intense
humanity and a great range and depth of scrupu-
lous yet eminently readable scholarship.
Giving considerable emphasis to an immense
array ofrecently published material and awealth of
new archival findings. Saul Friedlander describes
and interprets the steadily increasing anti-Jewish
persecution in Germany after the 1933 Nazi
accession to power. He demonstrates the interaction
between intentions and contingencies, between
discernible causes and changing circumstances.
Friedlander shows how Nazi ideological objectives
and tactical policy decisions enhanced one another
and always left an opening for ever more radical
moves.
The author's extensive use of new docu-
mentation brings us the ongoing deliberations ofthe
Nazi party leadership and also of numerous lower-
ranking party functionaries, and gives us insight
into the mentality of the university and other
cultural and professional elites; of leaders of the
business and financial world; and of members of
the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies. We also
encounter ordinary German citizens, who, in the
main, passively accepted the waves of dismissals,
segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, expul-
sion, and violence that reached a prewar peak in
November 1938 with th( Ized nationwide
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NAZI
GERMANY
AND THE
JEWS
volume
:
Also by SaulFriedlander
Pius XII and the Third Reich
Kurt Gerstein
Prelude to Downfall: Hitler and the United States
History and Psychoanalysis
Reflections of Nazism
When Memory Comes
Memory, History and the Extermination of the Jews
NAZI
GERMANY
AND THE
JEWS
VOLUME
I
The Years ofPersecution, i933~i939
SAUL FRIEDLANDER
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NAZI GERMANYANDTHEJEWS: VOLUME I: THEYEARS OFPERSECUTION, 1933-1939.
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Nazi GermanyandtheJews/SaulFriedlander. 1sted.
p. cm.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Contents:v. 1 Theyearsofpersecution, 1933-1939.
ISBN0-06-019042-6
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1. Jews Germany History 19—33-1945. 2. Jews Perse—cutions Germany.
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany. 4. Germany Ethnic relations.
I.Title.
DS135.G3315F75 1997
940.5318—dc20 96-21915
9798 990001 /RRD987654321
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