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Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution. (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) Paperback – June 15, 1994

by Walter Laqueur (Author), Richard Breitman (Author)

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Through unparalleled historical detective work, noted scholars Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman reveal the inspiring tale of Eduard Schulte, the Breslau business leader who risked his life to gather information about such Nazi activities as the revised date of the German attack on Poland and the Nazi plan for mass extermination of European Jews. First published in 1986, Breaking the Silence is reissued with both a new foreword and afterword by the authors.

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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.

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"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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Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry (Book 18)
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Brandeis; First edition (June 15, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0874516722
ISBN-13: 978-0874516722
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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- #886 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Censorship
- #2002 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > Jewish
- #4598 in Books > History > World > Jewish > Holocaust

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Fascinating Account of a Courageous Anti-Nazi

ByJerold D. Kowalskyon February 17, 2013

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This little known account of Eduard Schulte's courageous efforts to inform the Allies of Hitler's "Final Solution" is both en-heartening and disheartening. Here we have a wealthy and powerful man doing what he believes is the right thing in spite of putting himself and his family at extraordinary peril and then seeing the Allies essentially ignoring what he has told them. I suspect that he died with a clear conscience which is more than the Germans and many of the Allies did.

Schulte also gave the Allies vital information about Hitler's military plans on the Russian Front even though his two sons were fighting there in the German Army. In fact one died there while the other did survive numerous injuries and lived out his long life in San Diego.

The very first paragraph of Arthur D. Morse's monumental account of the Holocaust, "While Six Million Died" states " On August 1, 1941, History thrust a terrible burden upon Gerhart Riegner, the representative in Switzerland of the World Jewish Congress. On that day Riegner, who had himself fled from Nazi Germany, learned from a leading German industrialist that many months before, Hitler had ordered the extermination of all Jews in Europe" We now know what Morse did not know in 1967, that it was Eduard Schulte who revealed Hitler's plans to Riegner. In fact it was not until 1983 that the world learned about Schulte's heroism.
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At last someone has isolated the man who told all early enough to have something done to prevent the Holocaust

ByG Kossowon June 3, 2013

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THe subject of the book is a great hero. A little fellow who did more than his part to try to stop the Holocaust.
It is a book worth adding to your list of read books about W W II. Don't pay attention to the uneven writing; the facts scream off the page, the futility of his effort make one tear up and stay that way. read this. or as they say, read it and weep, for real. G Kossow

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Five Stars

ByAllen Haddoxon February 13, 2016

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Interesting and little known aspect of WWII

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Fast shipping. Great delivery time. Item was as described. Thank you for the smooth transaction!

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Ask yourself why and keep researching

ByLonemusketeeron April 30, 2017

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Things are not always as they appear. Men lie.

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The efforts to expose Nazi genocide

ByGary Selikowon January 7, 2008

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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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