Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wolf Gruner; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. |
| ISBN: | 0521838754 9780521838757 |
| OCLC Number: | 60550674 |
| Description: | xxiv, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Germany -- Austria -- The protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -- The occupied territories of Poland. |
| Responsibility: | Wolf Gruner ; translated by Kathleen M. Dell'Orto. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"Gruner has written pathbreaking works...It is Gruner's great achievement to demonstrate how local, regional, and national initiatives constantly reinforced each other. Contemporary historians are wont to point to the various contradictory labor policies as evidence of a confused and inconclusive intent to murder the European Jews-even as evidence that a 'comprehensive Final Solution' did not exist." -Michael Thad Allen, Yale Law School, Journal of Genocide Research "...a milestone in the historiography of the Holocaust..." - Frederick M. Schweitzer, The Historian Prodigious achival research...demonstrates conclusively that forced labor by Jews during the Third Reich did not begin, as is often assumed, with the notorious wartime camp system of the SS but was instead initiated by civilian labor authorities in line with the persecutory measures adopted in the wake of the pogrom of November 1938." -Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of teh European Jews "Roughly one half of the book is a condensed reworking and update of Gruner's two earlier monographs on Jewish forced labor in Germany and Austria respectively, as well as of his fascinating article on the use of Polish Jews from Lo'dz and Silesia in road construction projects in Germany." -Christopher R. Browning, Holocaust and Genocide Studies > -Christopher R. Browning, Holocaust and Genocide Studies "This informative book shows why Wolf Gruner is widely recognized as one of the ablest German historians of his generation. Drawing on an unparalleled command of the extant sources, he gives us the first detailed examination of how, why, and to what extent the Nazi system of exploiting Jewish labor metastasized. He also carefully delineates the relationship between this process and the development of the Final Solution. The resulting study significantly refocuses attention on the role of German economic interests and civilian institutions in the persecution of the Jewsh-and in the remarkable survival of some of them." -Peter Haynes, Professor of History and German and Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University Read more...
Tags
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(10)
- Jews -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century.
- Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
- Forced labor -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century.
- Forced labor -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Besatzungspolitik.
- Drittes Reich.
- Zwangsarbeit.
- Deutschland.
- Juden.
User lists with this item (1)
- General Surveys(108 items)
by zdoleshal updated 2009-04-28
