Germans against Germans

The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945

Moshe Zimmermann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06230-7 (ISBN)

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Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the storm—the German Jews—has received little attention. Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945, tells this story—how Germans declared war against other Germans, that is, against German Jews.

Author Moshe Zimmermann explores questions of what made such a war possible? How could such a radical process of exclusion take place in a highly civilized, modern society? What were the societal mechanisms that paved the way for legal discrimination, isolation, deportation, and eventual extermination of the individuals who were previously part and parcel of German society?

Germans against Germans demonstrates how the combination of antisemitism, racism, bureaucracy, cynicism, and imposed collaboration culminated in "the final solution."

Moshe Zimmermann is Richard M. Koebner Professor Emeritus for German History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism.

List of Abbreviations
1. The Decline of German Jewry
2. The Tabula Rasa Policy
3. "Days of Grace" in a Mousetrap
4. From Quarantine to Depatriation
5. Lost in the East
6. Mischlinge, "Divers," and Virtual Jews
7. "The Jews Were Our Misfortune"
8. Jews as Germans Abroad
9. Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences
Übersetzer	Naftali Greenwood
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-06230-6 / 0253062306
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06230-7 / 9780253062307
Zustand	Neuware