A] welcome complement to historians' accounts of Jewish reactions
to Nazi persecution before 1939. It richly maps the spatial,
emotional and psychological effects of social abandonment,
propaganda and the atomization of everyday life that made many Jews
come to feel what National Socialist policy had always
intended-that they were Germans no more. H-German
In 1940, Harvard University sent out a call to all German-Jewish
refugees to describe their experiences both before and after 1933.
These invaluable documents were only discovered in the University
archives some fifty years later by the editors of this volume. The
memoirs, written so soon after the emigration when impressions were
still vivid, movingly and tellingly describe the gradual
deterioration of the living conditions for Jews in Germany in the
time period leading up to the war-the daily humiliations they had
to suffer, and their desperate attempts to leave Germany.
A great deal is written about Nazi Germany during war time, yet
little is known about the years that preceded the war. Based on
these collected eyewitness accounts, and with an informative
introduction that places these experiences within a wider
historical framework, this important book sheds new light on this
time period. As this collection powerfully illustrates, these
preceding years provide important clues and insights to the events
that took place after November 1938, culminating in the Holocaust.
Any attempt to come to grips with this dark period in history must
take the revelations provided in this book into account.
Margarete Limberg studied political science at the universities
of Hamburg and Berlin. She is working as a broadcaster for German
radio in Berlin. Her special areas of interest are contemporary
history and policies in the arts and education.
Hubert Rubsaat studies history, sociology, philosophy, and
education at the University of Cologne. He works as broadcaster for
North German radio where he heads the section on contemporary
history and policies in education.
Alan Nothnagle has taught history at the University of Iowa and
the Europa- Universitat Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. He currently
lives and works as a freelance writer and translator in
Berlin."
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