The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945, Saul Friedländer (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), xxvi + 870 pp., cloth 39.95, pbk. 19.95
Saul Friedländer has long confronted the nearly insuperable challenges of representing the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. With this book he meets that challenge, achieving something that is not “business as usual” Holocaust historiography, but a history that integrates not only the actions of the pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 340-342 |
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| Summary: | Saul Friedländer has long confronted the nearly insuperable challenges of representing the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. With this book he meets that challenge, achieving something that is not “business as usual” Holocaust historiography, but a history that integrates not only the actions of the perpetrators, but also the reactions of the surrounding world and those of victims who did not survive, giving the latter a seldom-heard voice. The result is an innovative and elegantly written work embracing the story of perpetrators, bystanders (some of whom become perpetrators themselves), and victims., The stories of victims who did not survive are the most difficult to retrieve, but Friedländer has unearthed some three dozen diaries kept contemporaneously by victims. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn035 |