The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 - Softcover

Friedlander, Saul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060930489 ISBN 13: 9780060930486

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. In this unparalleled work--based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs--the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.

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Review:

Read together with his earlier volume, The Years of Persecution: 193-1939, Saul Friedlander has produced the new standard work on the Holocaust (Dan Jones DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Book Description:

The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060930489
• ISBN 13: 9780060930486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 896