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How the Jews Defeated Hitler - Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism (Hardcover)
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How the Jews Defeated Hitler - Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism (Hardcover)
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One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the
Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination
at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg
convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but
actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The
question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where and
by what means. True, many Jews were poorly armed, outnumbered, and
without resources, but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth
of passivity is solely that-a myth. The author describes how Jews
resisted Nazism strongly in four major venues. First, they served
as members of the Soviet military and as engineers who designed and
built many pivotal Soviet weapons, including the T-34 tank. Second,
a number were soldiers in the U.S. armed forces, and many also
played key roles in discrediting American isolationism, in
providing the Roosevelt administration with the support it needed
for preparing for war, and in building the atomic bomb. Third, they
made vital contributions to the Allies-the Soviet Union, the United
States, and Britain-in espionage and intelligence (especially
cryptanalysis), and fourth, they assumed important roles in several
European anti-Nazi resistance movements that often disrupted
Germany's fragile military supply lines. In this compelling, cogent
history, we discover that the Jews were an important factor in
Hitler's defeat.
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