The Years of Extermination - Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945

Informationen zum Autor Saul Friedlander was born in Prague in 1932. He fled to France where he survived the war in hiding. He arrived in Israel in 1948 and took part in the Israeli War of Independence. Since 1987 he was been Professor of Holocaust Studies at UCLA. In 2008 he was awarded the general non-fiction Pulitzer prize for his book THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION: Nazi Germany and the Jews! 1939-1945. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION! Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The implementation of German extermination policies and measures depended on the submissiveness of political authorities. Based on a vast variety of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices! Friedlander manages to avoid domesticating the memory of unparalleled and horrific events. The convergence of these various aspects gives THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION its unique aulity. In this work the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation. The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust Zusammenfassung The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Prof Saul Friedlander, Saul Friedlander, Saul Friedländer
• Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.10.2008
• EAN: 9780753824450
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2445-0
• Seiten: 896
• Abmessung: 175 mm x 216 mm x 60 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater