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Perpetrators, victims, bystanders : the Jewish catastrophe, 1933-1945
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Perpetrators, victims, bystanders : the Jewish catastrophe, 1933-1945

Author: Raul Hilberg
Publisher: New York, NY : Aaron Asher Books, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"Raul Hilberg is the most widely respected historian of the Holocaust. (His monumental three-volume The Destruction of the European Jews is recognized as the definitive work on the subject.) In this new book, the fruit of a lifetime's research and reflection, he carries the reader along with the narrative flow of the best fiction. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders is truth, but like a novel, it focuses on people -  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hilberg, Raul, 1926-2007.
Perpetrators, victims, bystanders.
New York, NY : Aaron Asher Books, c1992
(OCoLC)643802859
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Raul Hilberg
ISBN: 0060190353 9780060190354
OCLC Number: 25410526
Description: xii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Perpetrators. Adolf Hitler --
The establishment --
Old functionaries --
Newcomers --
Zealots, vulgarians, and bearers of burdens --
Physicians and lawyers --
Non-German governments --
Non-German volunteers --
Victims. The Jewish leaders --
The refugees --
Men and women --
Mixed marriages --
Children --
Christian Jews --
The advantaged, the strugglers, and the dispossessed --
The unadjusted --
The survivors --
Bystanders. Nations in Adolf Hitler's Europe --
Helpers, gainers, and onlookers --
Messengers --
The Jewish rescuers --
The Allies --
Neutral countries --
The churches.
Responsibility: Raul Hilberg.

Abstract:

"Raul Hilberg is the most widely respected historian of the Holocaust. (His monumental three-volume The Destruction of the European Jews is recognized as the definitive work on the subject.) In this new book, the fruit of a lifetime's research and reflection, he carries the reader along with the narrative flow of the best fiction. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders is truth, but like a novel, it focuses on people - people in all three categories of the title. We learn who they were and what they did and did not do. And what was done to them. The calm with which the author describes the most appalling events and the most terrible ironies is uncanny. He never raises his voice, never embroiders language, never strives for effect. He merely tells these stories that must be told, in one unflinchingly pure, clear sentence after another. Hilberg cannot, of course, cover everyone or everything, but all readers of this book, no matter how much or how little knowledge they may bring to it, will come away with an enhanced understanding of how this great human catastrophe happened - and with an unforgettable experience."--BOOK JACKET.

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