Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich [Hardcover]

Hermann Graml (Author), Tim Kirk (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0631172092 | ISBN-13: 978-0631172093 | Publication Date: June 1992 | Edition: English ed

This book combines a history of the course of antisemitism in the Third Reich with an investigation of its origins in German thought and society, from the late eighteenth century to its maturity in the pathological hatred embodied in Nazi ideology and policy. It opens with a graphic account of the Reichskristallnacht, 9 November 1938, when in a series of carefully worded orders the Nazi Party instructed the Sturmabteilung (the SA) to destroy Jewish businesses and to burn synagogues; the police and fire brigades were instructed not to intervene, but the press were invited to attend. Throughout that night, all over Germany Jewish property was burnt and the Jews bated, bullied and beaten, some drowned, others incarcerated for transport to concentration camps. The Reichskristallnacht, Dr Graml argues, marked the turning point between persecution and the Holocaust. Using evidence from a wide range of confidential documents, diaries and secret reports, he examines the long series of events that led up to it and the inexorable progress thereafter to the Holocaust. He also faces the vexed question as to how far the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish peoples of Europe was an expression of Nazi policy, and how far the will of the people.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover

This book is a history of the course of antisemitism in the Third Reich of Germany. It is also an investigation of the origins of antisemitism in German thought and society from the late 18th century to its maturity in the pathological hatred embodied in Nazi ideology and policy.

The book opens with a graphic account of the Reichskristallnacht. On 9 November 1938 in a series of carefully worded orders the National Socialist party instructed the Sturmabteilung (the SA) to destroy Jewish businesses and to burn synagogues. The police and fire brigades were instructed not to intervene. The press were invited to attend. Throughout that night all over Germany Jewish property was burnt and the Jews baited, bullied and beaten, some drowned in rivers and canals, others incarcerated for transport to concentration camps.

The Reichskristallnacht, Dr. Graml argues, marked the turning point between persecution and the Holocaust. Using evidence drawn from a wide range of confidential documents, diaries and secret reports he examines the long series of events that led up to it and the inexorable progress thereafter to the Holocaust. He also faces the vexed question as to how far the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish peoples of Europe was an expression of Nazi policy and how far the ill of the people.

This powerful book will be of compelling interest to all students of the history of the twentieth century. It is fully referenced and indexed, and appended with a selection of contemporary documents, a guide to primary and secondary sources, and a chronology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub; English ed edition (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631172092
• ISBN-13: 978-0631172093
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,387,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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