The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939

by Saul Friedländer

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A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews? Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new archival findings, Saul Friedlander restores the voices of Jews who, after the 1933 Nazi show more accession to power, were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality. We hear from the persecutors themselves: the leaders of the Nazi party, the members of the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies, the university elites, and the heads of the business community. Most telling of all, perhaps, are the testimonies of ordinary German citizens, who in the main acquiesced to increasing waves of dismissals, segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, expulsion, and violence. show less

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Intorno alla metà del Novecento una delle nazioni più civili e colte d'Europa, una società industriale avanzata, si dedicò con tutte le sue forze a una delle imprese più criminali della storia dell'umanità: lo sterminio degli ebrei. Saul Friedländer propone innanzitutto un ampio quadro dell'antisemitismo europeo dall'Ottocento fino alla presa del potere da parte di Hitler. Poi, utilizzando una notevole quantità di materiale inedito, segue le decisioni dei vertici del partito nazista e quelle dei quadri intermedi, fino ai militanti; la posizione dell'élite intellettuale e industriale e quelle delle chiese cattolica e protestante; ma anche l'evoluzione del comportamento dei singoli cittadini che in grande maggioranza accettarono show more passivamente la persecuzione degli ebrei, in un'escalation di violenze, umiliazioni, segregazioni, espulsioni, fino all'esplosione del 1938, con la famigerata Kristallnacht. Ma al centro della narrazione ci sono soprattutto le vittime, il loro atteggiamento e le loro reazioni, la loro storia concreta: Gli anni della persecuzione è così, oltre che un grande libro di storia, una possente narrazione di tragici destini individuali. (fonte: Ibs) show less

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Saul Friedlander is a professor of history at UCLA and has written numerous books on Nazi Germany and World War II

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Canonical title
The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939
Original title
The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939
Original publication date
1997
Important places
Germany
Important events
Holocaust (1933 | 1945)
Epigraph*
« Je n’aimerais pas être un juif en Allemagne. »

HERMANN GÖRING, 12 novembre 1938.
Dedication*
A Omer, Elam et Tom
First words*
Remerciements

De bout en bout, j’ai bénéficié de nombreux appuis personnels et institutionnels pour ce livre. [...]
Introduction

La plupart des historiens de ma génération, nés à la veille de l’ère nazie, savent que le pénible défrichage des événements de ces années ne les contraint pas seulement à exhumer et à ... (show all)interpréter un passé collectif, mais aussi à affronter leur propre vie.
[...]
Première partie
Un début et une fin


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Au sein du Troisième Reich


I

Juifs et gens de gauche, ou les deux à la fois, artistes et intellectuels commencent à fuir l’Allemagne... (show all) dès les premiers mois de 1933, presque aussitôt après l’accession de Hitler au pouvoir, le 30 janvier. [...]
Original language*
Anglais (Israël) (Israël)
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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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940.5318History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of Europe1918-World War II, 1939-1945Social, political, economic history; HolocaustHolocaust
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DS135 .G3315 .F75History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAsiaHistory of AsiaIsrael (Palestine). The JewsJews outside of Palestine
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