ISBN: 3767208504 9783767208506

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Page count: 384

Describes resistance to Nazism by German Jews, mainly in Germany but also in the ghettos and camps of Eastern Europe. Pp. 11-60, "Die Rahmenbedingungen", surveys Holocaust research in East and West Germany, noting the indifference of the West German public until the television series "Holocaust", and the dogmatism in the East which implied that the Jews were to blame for their own destruction because they failed to join the communist front. Sketches the history of antisemitism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, and summarizes the various attempts to explain Nazi motives for the Final Solution. Asserts that almost all sectors of the public service were implicated in the persecution of the Jews. Some Germans aided Jews, others denounced them; but most of the public remained indifferent, and even the German resistance groups attached marginal importance to the Jews' fate.