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DARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY BKGLEITE )ksu\khi ;m;i k w AND THE V \ D \ () N I S T A \ T S A N^T 1 II R I G K I I Tl VOLUME D E T S C II »> I I The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 Dieser Pa.6 enthall USA 30.00 C-n'iT'"", .842.50 How did one of the most cultv, '',' /id indus- trially advanced nations in id embark , on a path leading to one of the i: A criminal — 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 Kristallnacht pogrom. As 1 «.i ictims' attitudes icontinuedon bt\ 0297 CMC M CENTTER 2 3 1 01647 7521 DATE DUE FEU21W '0.971 4M1 MAY 61997 ,062000 I JJiQuLLuoiu mn ifl»7 -tin l n lOQ7g. -»UB-Hiafl SEP 9 logyi 1 —JQlLLUfl JM 3 189 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/nazigermanyjewsOOfrie 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 HarperCollins.M?/zs/7m NAZI GERMANYANDTHEJEWS: VOLUME I: THEYEARS OFPERSECUTION, 1933-1939. © Copyright 1997bySaulFriedlander.Allrightsreserved.PrintedintheUnitedStates ofAmerica.Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproducedinanymannerwhatsoever withoutwritten permission exceptin the case ofbriefquotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, NewYork, NY10022. HarperCollinsbooks maybepurchasedforeducational,business, orsalespromotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers,Inc., 10East53rdStreet,NewYork,NY10022. FIRSTEDITION DesignedbyJosephRutt LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Friedlander, Saul — Nazi GermanyandtheJews/SaulFriedlander. 1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Contents:v. 1 Theyearsofpersecution, 1933-1939. ISBN0-06-019042-6 — — — — — 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 To Omer, Elam, and Tom
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