Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution. (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) [Paperback]

Walter Laqueur (Author), Richard Breitman (Author)

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Publication Date: June 15, 1994 | Series: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry (Book 18)

A remarkable story of the German industrialist who first warned the West of Nazi plans for the mass murder of Jews.

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From Publishers Weekly

Historians Laqueur (A History of Zionism, etc.) and Breitman here tell the story of the German industrialist, who, at great risk, was the first to inform the world that Hitler had begun a systematic extermination of the Jews. Eduard Schulte, a fierce but secret Nazi-hater, was a non-Jewish, middle-aged, one-legged head of a mining company, whose Polish branch bordered the death camp Auschwitz. Access to top Nazi officials led to his discovery of the "Final Solution" in 1942, but his warnings to the U.S. State Department and American Jewry were delayed for many months through State Department bumbling. By 1943, Schulte was forced to find asylum in Switzerland. Almost as disturbing, and equally absorbing, is the authors' revelation that Schulte was rated disloyal to the Vaterland by postwar German officials, hence his virtual anonymity. Photos. Jewish Book Club alternate; author tour.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

"With exemplary scholarship," Laqueur and Breitman reveal how German industrialist Edward Schulte secretly informed the Allies of the Nazi's systematic extermination of Jews. A "rare combination of precision and passion" (LJ 6/15/86), this edition includes a new epilog by the authors.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Brandeis (June 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874516722
• ISBN-13: 978-0874516722
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The efforts to expose Nazi genocide, January 7, 2008

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Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution. (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) (Paperback)

This book was first written soon after discovery in the 1980's of the Riegner telegram reveled the role of German industrialist Eduard Schulte in brought the world the news of the plans by the Nazis to exterminate European Jewry, at great risk to himself.
He fled to Switzerland to escape Nazi vengeance and through Jewish Swiss community leader passed on the plans for genocide by Hitler, and the fact that the first killings in Auschwitz were already taking place.

This information was ignored by the Allies, who thence bear some responsibility for the mass murder of European Jewry.

Once news of the Nazi genocide had been passed on to the Allies, efforts were made by the leader and Rabbi Stephen Wise to the Allies to procure 1) a joint declaration by the United States and the United Kingdom censuring barbarism and promoting retribution; 2) Opening Palestine to the Jews; 3) Removing all barriers to the immigration of Jewish children; and 4) Exchanging Jews in occupied Europe for interned Axis nationals.
all of these pleas were ignored and rejected.
An interesting point is made in the book concerning Hitler's annexation of Austria and Sudetenland and invasion of Czechoslovakia, that Hitler regarded small states as an anachronism. Just like Leftists today, in the media, politics and universities etc, who see small nation-states as an anachronism, and ignore the rights of regional minorities.
So the next time you hear aleftist say the nation-state is an anachronism, i.e in trying to abolish Israel, remind them that this contempt for the small nation-state was Hitler's view.
This is the story of the life of Eduard Schulte, of the designs of the Nazis and of those courageous Germans who resisted Nazism.

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