" The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into
the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the
continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German
Jews and non-Jews. In the aftermath of World War II, many viewed
the Third Reich as an aberration in German history and laid blame
with Hitler and his followers. Since the 1960s, historians have
widened their focus, implicating "ordinary" Germans in the demise
of German Jewry. Jonathan Friedman addresses this issue by
investigation everyday relations between German Jews and their
Gentile neighbors. Friedman examines three German communities of
different sizes -- Frankfurt am Main, Giessen, and Geisenheim.
Symbolized by the Hessian heraldic lion, these communities
represent a cross-section of both Gentile and Jewish society in
Germany during the Weimar and Nazi years. Researching in the United
States, Germany, England, and Israel, he gleaned information from
interviews, memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, church and
synagogue records, censuses, government documents, and reports from
Nazi and resistance organizations. Friedman's comparative analysis
offers a balanced response to recent scholarly works condemning the
entire German people for their complicity in the Holocaust.
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