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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 940.5318 EAN: 9780060930486 ISBN: 0060930489 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 896 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 01, 2008 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Eyewitness Accounts of the Horror That Was the HolocaustFreidlander has strung together a narrative of the horrors of the Holocaust as seen in the eyewitness accounts of Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders, and survivors. Each chapter is the culmination of the accounts of journals kept by as diverse a group as schoolchildren such as the famous Anne Frank, Various Jewish leaders, simple shopkeepers, laborers and farmers, German soldiers, Slavic witnesses, and a multitude of others. The book is very hard to read yet compelling. I could only ... Read More Rating:  - Very Dry, Scholarly WorkThis is the kind of work whose rating depends exclusively on what kind of reading experience you're looking for. If you are a scholar of the Holocaust and German policies during World War II as it relates to the "Jewish problem", this will perhaps be the gold standard. If, on the other hand, you're merely in search of an educational and captivating read, you'd best look elsewhere. At its core, this book is a compilation of hundreds of sources that chronicle the evolution of Nazi policies ... Read More Rating: - Astonishing history of our darkest hourFirst of all set aside a long time to read this. The author devotes a great deal of detail into establishing his theories and then proves them one by one. First of all he destroys the myth that either the German people or anyone in the occupied countries did not know what was going on. In fact he clearly demonstrates that many played active roles in if not betraying Jews, they chose to be blind to their plight. We also get an in depth view of how the German killing machine turned killing ... Read More Rating: - An Essential Study of Nazi Germany and the JewsThis is truly a magisterial study of the Holocaust (Shoah), well deserving of its award of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and follows the author's earlier volume covering the 1933-1939 period. It runs some 663 pages of text, includes 128 pages of meticulous notes, and 51 pages of bibliographic references. It places heavy reliance not only on contemporary documents, but also on published and unpublished memoirs and diaries (such as that of Victor Klemperer, also reviewed on Amazon). The author ... Read More Rating:  - Truly magisterial but something is missingThis is a magisterial book, as one of the critics defined it. Not only does it contain an exhaustive research, poignant diarists' quotations, and a vast collection of amazing facts (such as the refusal of the Hungerians to surrender their Jews to Hitler, or the indifference of starving and desperate parents to the deportation of their children), it also, and most importantly, "nails" the Nazi crimes and criminals as no other book has ever done. In the presence of this book, Holocaust deniers will be forever silenced. ... Read More 
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