Final solution
Subtitle: the fate of the Jews 1933-1949
By: David Cesarani
Edition: First U.S. Edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1016
ISBN-13: 9781250000835
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; World War II 1939-1945; HISTORY / Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Causes; War
Description: "David Cesarani's Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of western intelligence service records, as well as diaries and reports written in the camps, Cesarani provides a sweeping reappraisal challenging accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany and the inevitability of the Final Solution. The persecution of the Jews, as Cesarani sees it, was not always the Nazis' central preoccupation, nor was it inevitable. He shows how, in German-occupied countries, it unfolded erratically, often due to local initiatives. For Cesarani, war was critical to the Jewish fate. Military failure denied the Germans opportunities to expel Jews into a distant territory and created a crisis of resources that led to the starvation of the ghettos and intensified anti-Jewish measures. Looking at the historical record, he disputes the iconic role of railways and deportation trains. From prisoner diaries, he exposes the extent of sexual violence and abuse of Jewish women and follows the journey of some Jewish prisoners to displaced persons camps. David Cesarani's Final Solution is the new standard chronicle of the fate of a heroic people caught in the hell that was Hitler's Germany."
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first year 1933; title: Judenpolitik, 1934-1938; title: Pogrom ,1938-1939; title: War, 1939-1941; title: Barbarossa, 1941; title: Final solution, 1942; title: Total war, 1943; title: The last phase, 1944-1945.