—Jewish Week
“The most sophisticated recent studies of the Holocaust itself…[including] the just-published The Years of Extermination, the second and concluding volume of Saul Friedländer’s summa, Nazi Germany and the Jews—inextricably fix the German war on the Eastern Front to the center of their story.”
—Atlantic Monthly
“It will cement his reputation as one of the most influential and perceptive historians of the Shoah writing today…. Friedländer brings to life the words of the victims through their letters and diaries. He uses this resource probably more extensively and effectively than any other scholar, helping him write a history with a novelist’s sense of the human aspects of the tragedy. Keenly aware that the role of historical knowledge is to smooth away disbelief, to make history seem ordinary, Friedländer provides a remarkable study of the Shoah without eliminating or domesticating the enduring sense of shock or disbelief that must confront any reader.”
—Jewish Book World
“In this second compelling volume of Friedländer’s history of the Holocaust (see its predecessor, Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939), the author…takes into account recent scholarship on the Holocaust, but avoids bogging down in the intentionalist/functionalist historiographic debate.”
—Library Journal
“Here he takes a broad view of the war against the Jews. The actions of the Nazi state are closely examined, but he also places the Holocaust within the broader context of European politics and racial attitudes. He eloquently illustrates the millions of individual tragedies through extensive use of Jewish diaries.”
—Booklist
“A masterful synthesis that draws on a lifetime of learning and research.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Also by Saul Friedländer
NAZI GERMANY AND THE JEWS
PIUS XII AND THE THIRD REICH
KURT GERSTEIN
PRELUDE TO DOWNFALL: HITLER AND THE UNITED STATES
HISTORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
REFLECTIONS OF NAZISM
WHEN MEMORY COMES
MEMORY, HISTORY, AND THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS
Copyright
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Table of Contents
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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Notes
Bibliography
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Saul Friedländer
Copyright
About the Publisher
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