Gli anni della persecuzione

The Years of Persecution is the first of a two-volume work on the Holocaust by Saul Friedlander. It covers the years 1933 (when Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany) to 1939 (when Germany invaded Poland, an event that generally marks the start of World War II, though I contend that World War Leggi tutto

In this first volume Friedlander concentrates on the policies of the Nazi regime toward the Jews during the years 1933-39, but also integrates the social context, both the attitudes of German society in general and the reactions to and perceptions of Nazi policies on the part of the Jewish populatio Leggi tutto

For my money this is is one of the great history books. Together with its sequel 'The Years Of Extermination' Friedländer has undoubtedly written a seminal history of the Holocaust, but I found this volume particularly magnificent, perhaps because it deals with six years which inevitably receive les Leggi tutto

Saul Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews seems destined to become one of the magisterial works in the field. The second volume clocks in at around 800 pages, but this first one is a shorter book, that nevertheless manages to detail the path to the death camps through a discussion both of the pol Leggi tutto

This book is the first of Freidlander's comprehensive history of the Holocaust, and is a lead-in to the second volume, The Years of Extermination. The Years of Persecution traces the gradual implementation of the Nazis final solution, and answers the "how could this have happened?" question, or at l Leggi tutto

Nazi Almanyası'na dair olup biten her şey belgeleriyle anlatılmış. Somut veriler oldukça kullanılmış ve okuyucu yormayan bir üslupla yansıtılmış. Okuduğum en detaylı Nazi dönemi kitabıdır. İkinci cildini okumayı sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum.

The worst (and best) (and worst!) part of this book is the way Friedlander describes the exacting thoroughness that the Nazis applied to their race policies toward the Jews. No detail was too small. No tidbit was unworthy of notice. No "general rule" was applied. Each and every case was considered i Leggi tutto

El cuadro escrito que Friedländer nos presenta en este primer tomo coral y fáctico de la evolución de la pérdida progresiva de derechos de los judíos y otras minorías bajo un régimen que se cernía sobre ellos como una trampa de resorte. Los datos y testimonios muestran un impecable trabajo de invest Leggi tutto

More technical insight into the 1930s pograms that the Nazis implemented than I ever knew. Really gave me a lot of food for thought, especially given the fact that all of this could have been prevented at least somewhat if there rest of the world wasn't so damned racist at the time. The book was loa Leggi tutto

This is an excellent work of history- rigorous, balanced, and insightful. The most remarkable aspect of the book is its ability to weave together the individual stories of people from all levels of the Nazi regime and from all of the parts of the society that it victimized. It is moving in many plac Leggi tutto