Title: The lion and the star
First published: 1998
Description: Friedman examines three German communities of different sizes - Frankfurt am Main, Giessen, and Geisenheim. Symbolized by the Hessian heraldic lion, these communities represent a cross-section of both Gentile and Jewish society in Germany during the Weimar and Nazi years.

Conducting research in the United States, Germany, England, and Israel, he gleaned information from interviews, memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, church and synagogue records, censuses, government documents, and reports from Nazi and resistance organizations. Friedman's comparative analysis offers a balanced response to recent scholarly works condemning the entire German people for their complicity in the Holocaust.
Subjects: Jews, History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Ethnic relations, Jews, germany, Germany, social conditions
Places: Germany, Geisenheim, Giessen (Hesse), Frankfurt am Main
Time periods: 20th century, 1933-1945
LC classification: DS135.G4 F664 1998