Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
	List Price:   $39.95 Unit Price:   $31.96 You Save:   $7.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060190434 ISBN-13:   9780060190439 Publisher:   HarperCollins Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 2007 Pages:   870 Format:   Hardcover
Subjects
GERMANY_HISTORY_1933-1945 HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)
Description/Notes
With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedl?nder completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the cooperation of local authorities, the assistance of police forces, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. This implementation depended as well on the victims' readiness to submit to orders, often with the hope of attenuating them or of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. This multifaceted study-at all levels and in different places-enhances the perception of the magnitude, complexity, and interrelatedness of the many components of this history. Based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices-mainly from diaries, letters, and memoirs-Saul Friedl?nder avoids domesticating the memory of these unprecedented and horrific events. The convergence of these various aspects gives a unique quality to The Years of Extermination. In this work, the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation. Saul Friedlander is a professor of History at UCLA and a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University. The result of more than 30 years of research and investigation, this important new volume presents a thorough historical study of the events beyond the usual analysis of German policies, decisions, and measures that led to this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides.