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Laddar... The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy toward German Jews, 1933-39av Karl A. Schleunes
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The book is full of useful information about the varying policies towards Jews before the "Final Solution" was put into place, but I'm not sure that I buy the author's main premise that the Nazis "stumbled upon" the plan to exterminate Jews only after several failed attempts to get rid of them in other ways. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Since the publication of Karl Schleunes' The Twisted Road To Auschwitz in 1970 an almost inconceivably broad variety of scholarly books and articles has dealt with why and how the Holocaust came into being and what kind of mechanisms lay at the bottom of the unimaginable cruelties committed by the Nazi regime against the Jews. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Before reading Schleunes's book I had a very different picture of “the twisted road to Auschwitz” in mind. It is tempting to want to see the perpetrators of such crimes as superhumanly evil, even as monsters. Schleunes, however, reminds of the reality, that those who created the concentration camps and gas chambers were as human as the rest of us, and that, as humans so often do, they largely bumbled their way into genocide.
Schleunes paints a picture of a perfect storm, a collusion of people, events, and ideas brought together by chance. Here are radical Antisemites of the lower-middle class whose hatred for Jews derives from a combination of culture heritage and envy. Here is a science only vaguely understood and manipulated for propaganda purposes. Here is a continually growing population of Jews. And here is the “Final Solution.”
Schleunes's book is a masterful account of “the twisted road to Auschwitz” which hits every bump and dip along the way. This is an important read for all people. It is only through understanding how we ended up there in the first place that we can fulfill the motto often repeated since the Holocaust: “never again.” ( )