A Fatal Balancing Act: The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939–1945, Beate Meyer (New York: Berghahn, 2013), 454 pp., hardcover 100.00, electronic version available
In his classic study of the Judenräte (Jewish councils) in Eastern Europe during the Shoah, Isaiah Trunk looked carefully at the question of cooperation with the Germans, and concluded that what he called collaboration d’État was unavoidable; failure to work with the Germans would have destroyed the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-123 |
| Review of: | A fatal balancing act (New York [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2013) (Crowe, David M.)
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| Summary: | In his classic study of the Judenräte (Jewish councils) in Eastern Europe during the Shoah, Isaiah Trunk looked carefully at the question of cooperation with the Germans, and concluded that what he called collaboration d’État was unavoidable; failure to work with the Germans would have destroyed the “rationale for [the councils'] very existence.”1 While Beate Meyer reaches the same conclusion, she is far less harsh in her judgments of the German-Jewish leaders who headed the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RJD; Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) from 1939 to 1943, and its successor organization, the Rest-Reichsvereinigung (Residual Reich Association) from 1943 until the war's end., The reason, she explains, is quite simple. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv015 |