This book offers a new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing rescue. These help and rescue efforts proved mainly self defeating, and various legacies about them emerged during the Holocaust and are heatedly debated even today. Their real nature is uncovered here on the basis of newly opened archives worldwide.
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'A real contribution to the field of Jewish, Nazi, and World War II studies.' Richard Breitman, American University
'Aronson's book is a major contribution to Holocaust historiography.' Henry Friedlander, Emeritus, Brooklyn College
'... his passion never leads to bias; Aronson's book is a model of scholarly objectivity, supported by superb research. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews is likely to become a standard work, to be consulted by anyone interested in Jewish and Allied reactions to the murder of the Jews in Europe.' Holocaust and Genocide Studies
'Aronson's book is a major contribution to Holocaust historiography.' Henry Friedlander, Emeritus, Brooklyn College
'... his passion never leads to bias; Aronson's book is a model of scholarly objectivity, supported by superb research. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews is likely to become a standard work, to be consulted by anyone interested in Jewish and Allied reactions to the murder of the Jews in Europe.' Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Based on known and new records now available, this book explains when and why Hitler decided to destroy the Jews of Europe, the Allied refusal to deal with things Jewish in order to be able to fight Hitler, and the dilemmas of the Jewish leadership abroad.
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It is clear from the significant analysis of evidence old and some very new that Hitler's obsession with the Jews combined with general suspicion of Jews and Zionists among his British and American enemies created a no-win situation for Jews seeking to save their brethren from genocide. The result was a trap in which Jews found themselves: allied help could only support Hitler's notion that the Jews controlled the allies and wanted a world war while allied refusal to allow this only made the fate of the Jews more doomed.
Unfortunately this book while written in English was not written by an English speaker and the prose is difficult to follow. Sentences are overly long with too many subordinate clauses; prepositions are not easily fitted to obvious nouns, and the writing is atrocious. A pity, since the analysis is excellent and convincing that nothing the allies would have done, had they been willing, would have saved Hitler's victims; nothing the Jews and/or Zionists could have done would have made any difference. In his war against the Jews Hitler was truly brilliant, as well as demonic. The final conclusion that needs to be drawn is this: Hitler would not have succeeded in his genocide without the active and passive support on both sides of the war. The culprit is no less than the generalized and respectable anti-semitism of western culture.
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The Nazi regime's treatment of Jews between 1933 and 1939 was gradually radicalized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
forced emigration policy, rescue operatives, spearhead theory, censorship intercepts, rescue debate, rescue endeavors, preventing rescue, hegemonic plans, refugee traffic, rescue options, multiple trap, rescue deals, other rescue workers, trap situation, entry certificates, intelligence records, double trap, hungarian jews, decimal file Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jewish Agency, Final Solution, United States, Middle East, New York, State Department, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Rescue Committee, Western Allies, White Paper, Hagana Archive, Foreign Office, Joel Brand, Third Reich, North Africa, European Jews, Red Cross, American Jews, David Ben-Gurion, European Jewry, Fritz Laufer, Jews of Europe, Saly Mayer, American Jewish New!
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forced emigration policy, rescue operatives, spearhead theory, censorship intercepts, rescue debate, rescue endeavors, preventing rescue, hegemonic plans, refugee traffic, rescue options, multiple trap, rescue deals, other rescue workers, trap situation, entry certificates, intelligence records, double trap, hungarian jews, decimal file Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jewish Agency, Final Solution, United States, Middle East, New York, State Department, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Rescue Committee, Western Allies, White Paper, Hagana Archive, Foreign Office, Joel Brand, Third Reich, North Africa, European Jews, Red Cross, American Jews, David Ben-Gurion, European Jewry, Fritz Laufer, Jews of Europe, Saly Mayer, American Jewish New!
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- The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Otto Guensche and Heinze Linge, Hitler's Closest Personal Aides by Henrik Eberle in Back Matter
- Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (War & Genocide) by Jonathan Petropoulos on page 76
- Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle in Back Matter
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