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ISBN-10:: 0807846759
ISBN-13:: 9780807846759
Pub. Date:: 09/22/1997
Publisher:: The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-10:: 0807846759
ISBN-13:: 9780807846759
Pub. Date:: 09/22/1997
Publisher:: The University of North Carolina Press

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution / Edition 3

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Overview

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.

The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centers where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps.

Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition.

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ISBN-13:	9780807846759
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	09/22/1997
Edition description:	3
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	812,528
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)

About the Author

Henry Friedlander was professor of history in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and coeditor of the 26-volume Archives of the Holocaust Series.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. Prophets Without Honor: The Travails of the Southern Clergy, 1954-1960
Chapter 2. Going South: Northern Clergy and Direct-Action Protests, 1960-1962
Chapter 3. The Call to Battle: The Churches and Synagogues Enter the Civil Rights Struggle,1963
Chapter 4. Bringing Good News to the Oppressed: Clerical Organization in the North and South, 1964
Chapter 5. Flood Tide: Bearing Witness in Alabama, 1965
Chapter 6. Going Against the Grain: Clergy and the Antiwar Movement, 1963-1965
Chapter 7. A Voice for Moderation: Clergy and the Antiwar Movement, 1966-1967
Chapter 8. The Escalation of Dissent: The Antiwar Movement, 1967-1968
Chapter 9. The Costly Peace: The Antiwar Movement, 1968-1973
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Well researched, remarkably balanced in its judgments, and full of fresh insights. It deserves the widest possible readership.—Journal of Modern History

Friedlander has written an excellent piece of historical research which establishes the similarities of the fates of three victim groups.—Jewish History

Is it possible to present novel views and materials on the origins of the German mass murder of the Jews? Henry Friedlander, a historian . . . and a survivor of Auschwitz . . . succeeds in doing so. . . . The book should be read by . . . medical students and doctors. It is a must for psychiatrists.—Benno MAller-Hill, Journal of the American Medical Association

Indispensable for undergraduate and graduate students of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.—History: Reviews of New Books

Well-researched and wide-ranging. . . . The most detailed scholarly inquiry into the management and mechanics of the euthanasia operation yet published. Ten or fifteen years ago, it was rare to see a historian drawing links between the Final Solution and the murder of Germany's handicapped. . . . Friedlander's elucidation of the important continuities of technique and personnel gives us valuable new insights into the inner workings of Nazi genocide.—Robert N. Proctor, American Historical Review

Admirably researched. . . . One of the distinguishing features of this study is the meticulous description of the administration of the euthanasia program.—Gordon A. Craig, New York Review of Books

A most valuable contribution to the history of Nazism and of the Holocaust.—Kirkus Reviews

Friedlander has written a book of great importance for understanding the Final Solution. . . . [He] breaks new ground in his examination of how the machinery of the euthanasia program was duplicated in death camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka.—Choice

A book that is so fundamentally important that it forces us to reconsider our understanding of the origins of the Final Solution.—Congress Monthly

Friedlander's book is soberly written. But it is meticulous in its documentation. Never is a speculation presented without masses of material to back it up. It is a substantial book, in keeping with the importance of the topic and the material amassed here for the first time.—Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Editorial Reviews

If one has time to read only one book among the recent works on Nazi euthanasia, this is it.
Christopher R. Browning, "Times Literary Supplement"

One of the distinguishing features of this study is the meticulous description of the administration of the euthanasia program.
Gordon A. Craig, "New York Review of Books"

Well researched, remarkably balanced in its judgments, and full of fresh insights. It deserves the widest possible readership.
"Journal of Modern History"

"If one has time to read only one book among the recent works on Nazi euthanasia, this is it.
Christopher R. Browning, "Times Literary Supplement""

"One of the distinguishing features of this study is the meticulous description of the administration of the euthanasia program.
Gordon A. Craig, "New York Review of Books""

"Well researched, remarkably balanced in its judgments, and full of fresh insights. It deserves the widest possible readership.
"Journal of Modern History""

Friedlander has written an excellent piece of historical research which establishes the similarities of the fates of three victim groups.
"Jewish History"

Never is a speculation presented without masses of material to back it up. It is a substantial book.
"Holocaust and Genocide Studies"

From the Publisher

Friedlander's study tracks the Nazi program of genocide back to 1940 with the murder of some 5000 handicapped children, euthanasia that was subsequently expanded to include disabled Jews and Gypsies. The targeting of these three groups was based on the Nazis' belief in human inequality and their determination to ``cleanse the gene pool of the German nation.'' Thus began the euthanasia program in which debate over the most efficient method of mass murder led to the construction of killing centers where crippled children were gassed and cremated. Friedlander shows that the success of the program convinced the Nazis that mass murder was technically workable, that ordinary citizens were willing to slaughter large numbers of innocent people. The killing centers became models for the extermination camps of the Final Solution. ``When all is said and done, we are still unable to grasp the reasons that seemingly normal men and women were able to commit such extraordinary crimes,'' concludes Friedlander, a history professor at Brooklyn College. (Sept.)

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The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution / Edition 3

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