 the war against the jews is a book written by lucy dawidowicz and published in 1975 (holt, rinehart and winston, isbn 003013661x). the book researches the holocaust of the european jewry during world war ii. the author contends that hitler pursued his policies to eliminate jewish populations throughout europe even to the detriment of pragmatic wartime actions such as moving troops and securing supply lines. as an example, dawidowicz notes that hitler delayed railcars providing supplies to front line troops in the soviet union so that jews could be deported by rail from the ussr to death camps. she uses records of "one-way" rail tickets as additional documentation of those sent to camps. dawidowicz also draws a line of "anti-semitic descent" from martin luther to hitler, writing that both men were obsessed by the "demonologized universe" inhabited by jews. she contents that similarities between luther's anti-jewish writings, especially on the jews and their lies, and modern anti-semitism are no coincidence, because they derived from a common history of judenhass (jew-hatred), which she traces back to the biblical haman's advice to ahasuerus. she argues that though modern anti-semitism has its roots in german nationalism, the foundation of christian anti-semitism was laid by the catholic church and "upon which luther built."bantam edition 1986, p.23. isbn 0-553-34532-x the book also provides detailed listings by country of the number of jews killed in world war ii. dawidowicz researched birth and death records in many cities of prewar europe to come up with a death toll of 5,933,900 jews. ==criticism by raul hilberg== raul hilberg, widely considered to be one of the world's preeminent holocaust scholars, published his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, the destruction of the european jews, in 1961; this work is regarded today as a seminal study of the nazi final solution. hilberg notes that dawidowicz not only ignored the destructions findings in 
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