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Between Persecution and Participation - Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & Soehne (Paperback)
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Between Persecution and Participation - Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & Soehne (Paperback)
Series: Modern Jewish History
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List price R647
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
You Save R121 (19%)
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This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the
misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth
century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant
mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908-1983) was declared a half-Jew by the
laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and his father
were briefly interned in Buchenwald. Although his father was
eventually executed in Auschwitz in 1943, Willy went on to become
an accountant for J. A. Topf & Soehne, the manufacturer of the
ovens used in the death of his father as well as thousands of
others in concentration camps. Persecuted by the Nazis, he also
participated, minimally, in the Nazi-led genocide. This paradox and
Willy's liminal status gives his fascinating biography historical
significance, adding a new dimension to our understanding of what
the Nazi race policies meant to ordinary Germans. In this brief
telling of an otherwise average man's life, Schule and Sowade
reveal the pervasive and long-term effect of the race laws. Based
solely on archival records, Willy's story gives insight into the
muddled and impossible choices of vulnerable individuals living
under the Third Reich and the blurred boundaries between victim,
bystander, and accomplice.
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