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The Nazi Holocaust
The Nazi Holocaust is an important breakthrough in the struggle to understand this shattering event. By shunning simplistic explanations, Landau seeks to mediate between the vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts—Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, and the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience—his book is a model text, brief but surprisingly comprehensive.
376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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July 27, 2025
Decent overview with useful documents in the appendix. I've never been especially partial to the Hitler order thesis from skeptics, and enough documentation seems to exist that would undermine their assumptions.
September 27, 2019
The Nazi Holocaust
By: Ronnie S. Landau89
This book is very informational and detailed about the Holocaust. It was always giving me information about the events leading up to the Holocaust and the aftermath of it.
The Jews have been persecuted for years dating back to 300 BC. The book describes how they have been kicked out multiple times by more powerful people and governments. The book introduces important events in history like the French Revolution and the First World War and how those events played a part in Jewish life and culture. It introduces how Hitler rose to power and the changes he made to single out the Jewish population and later to persecute and murder them in camps. The author also gives what the Jews did once World War 2 ended and the events that took place to Israel being founded.
I enjoyed how the book was wrote. How he started to with the very first diasporas of the Jewish people and went further in time. I liked how he would go from a major event at a certain time, then would go forward to another time and explain how that event impacted the Jewish community.
The author reveals the major conflicts that the Jews face through time by explaining how they were treated by other empires or governments such as the Romans, Russians, Germans, and other groups of people.
The German state during this time adopted Hitlers views on Jews. It became regular life for the German people to harass Jews and to vandalize their property and stores. The German people weren’t aware of what was happening tho Jews in camps.
Many of the allies wouldn’t accept Jews during world war 2 and after it. Countries like Britain and the United States wouldn’t accept Jewish people who had been forced out of their homes and had lost family members and personal belongings.
Other states such as Italy and Austria adapted Hitlers ideas about Jews. They discriminate against Jews but did not send them to camps to their death. In the Aftermath of the War, Jews were allowed to stay but many were not giving any help in starting their life over again.
After reading this book. I have gained a better understanding of how events lead up to the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atrocity. I do think that this book will be able to give others knowledge about this genocide that accred in human history.
By: Ronnie S. Landau89
This book is very informational and detailed about the Holocaust. It was always giving me information about the events leading up to the Holocaust and the aftermath of it.
The Jews have been persecuted for years dating back to 300 BC. The book describes how they have been kicked out multiple times by more powerful people and governments. The book introduces important events in history like the French Revolution and the First World War and how those events played a part in Jewish life and culture. It introduces how Hitler rose to power and the changes he made to single out the Jewish population and later to persecute and murder them in camps. The author also gives what the Jews did once World War 2 ended and the events that took place to Israel being founded.
I enjoyed how the book was wrote. How he started to with the very first diasporas of the Jewish people and went further in time. I liked how he would go from a major event at a certain time, then would go forward to another time and explain how that event impacted the Jewish community.
The author reveals the major conflicts that the Jews face through time by explaining how they were treated by other empires or governments such as the Romans, Russians, Germans, and other groups of people.
The German state during this time adopted Hitlers views on Jews. It became regular life for the German people to harass Jews and to vandalize their property and stores. The German people weren’t aware of what was happening tho Jews in camps.
Many of the allies wouldn’t accept Jews during world war 2 and after it. Countries like Britain and the United States wouldn’t accept Jewish people who had been forced out of their homes and had lost family members and personal belongings.
Other states such as Italy and Austria adapted Hitlers ideas about Jews. They discriminate against Jews but did not send them to camps to their death. In the Aftermath of the War, Jews were allowed to stay but many were not giving any help in starting their life over again.
After reading this book. I have gained a better understanding of how events lead up to the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atrocity. I do think that this book will be able to give others knowledge about this genocide that accred in human history.
November 21, 2013
This is a great book for an overview of the Holocaust. I have studied and taught the subject for many years and this is one of the best general knowledge books I have come across. Landau makes very complicated parts of history easily understandable without over-simplifying. I highly recommend this book for teachers and anyone else looking for a good overview.
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