A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War Tim Grady
In his new book, A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War, Tim Grady convincingly demonstrates how well-integrated Jews were in the German effort during World War I. Not only did they fight and die for the fatherland, but they helped generate wartime enthusiasm in 1914 and played a significant...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 273-275 |
| Review of: | A deadly legacy (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017) (Rozenblit, Marsha L.)
A deadly legacy (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017) (Rozenblit, Marsha L.) |
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| Summary: | In his new book, A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War, Tim Grady convincingly demonstrates how well-integrated Jews were in the German effort during World War I. Not only did they fight and die for the fatherland, but they helped generate wartime enthusiasm in 1914 and played a significant role in seeking territorial annexation in the East. Convinced of German superiority, some Jews even helped create and implement ideologies that marginalized minority groups. At the same time, however, especially from 1916 on, war weariness and hunger made many Germans blame Jews for the unexpectedly long war, and claim that Jews shirked their military responsibility and profited from the war. More dangerously, in late 1918, the “Stab in the Back” myth circulated widely. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz033 |