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The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz ; with a special new introduction for the tenth anniversary edition by the author.

Summary:

Details the origins, growth and implementation of Nazi Germany's plan to annihilate European Jewry and the various responses of individual Jews and organized Jewish communities to the Holocaust through its several stages in ghettos and death camps.

Record details

ISBN: 9780553345322
Physical Description: xv, 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Edition: Bantam trade ed.
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 1986, ©1975.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Reprint. Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975. With new introd. and supplementary bibliography.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-456) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Subject: Definitions and contours -- Jews in Hitler's mental world -- Anti-Semitism in modern Germany -- Phase One: Anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1935 -- SS: Instrument of the final solution -- Foreign policy, race, and war -- Phase Two: From internal war to world war -- Annihilation camps: Kingdom of death -- Retrospective view -- Between freedom and ghetto: The Jews in Germany, 193301938 -- Death and life in the east European ghettos -- Official community: From Kehilla to Judenrat -- Alternative community -- Countercommunity: The political underground -- Who shall live, who shall die -- "For your freedom and ours" -- Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity.