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No Justice in Germany - The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941 (Hardcover)
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No Justice in Germany - The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941 (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social
Democrat, show how the process of marginalization under the Nazis
unfolded within the vibrant Jewish community of Breslau--until that
community was destroyed in 1941. Cohn documents how difficult it
was to understand precisely what was happening, even as people were
harassed, beaten, and taken off to concentration camps. He
chronicles the efforts of the community to maintain some semblance
of normal life at the same time as many made plans to emigrate or
to get their children out.
Cohn and his wife Gertrud were able to get their three oldest
children out of Germany before it was too late. However, burying
himself in his work chronicling the history of the Jews in Germany,
his diaries, and his memoirs, Cohn missed his own chance to escape.
In late 1941, he, Gertrud, and their two young daughters were
deported to Lithuania, where they were shot.
Willy Cohn was a complex individual: an Orthodox Jew and a
socialist; an ardent Zionist and a staunch German patriot; a
realist but also an idealist often unable to cope with reality; a
democrat and an admirer of certain Nazi policies and of their
resoluteness. These contradictions and the wealth of detail that
poured from his pen give us a unique view of those disorienting and
frightening times in Germany.
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