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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning
Harper Perennial, 1993
Not for the faint of heart, or the weak of stomach!
+ Ordinary Men is a grisly look at a German killing squad implementing the Final Solution in Poland
+ Frightfully banal
+ Excellent
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The Wall
John Hersey
Vintage, 1988
Huge, Haunting, and Heroic
+ THE GREAT WORLD WAR II NOVEL WAITING TO BE REDISCOVERED
+ Can we learn from history?
+ The Wailing Wall
+ An ambitious book
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The Last of the Just
Andre Schwarz-Bart
Overlook TP, 2000
Moving, Funny, Tragic, Romantic... Amazing
+ Absorbing the burden of humanity's suffering so that mankind can survive. A small masterpiece of a book!
+ So that we all may be Just
+ An astounding and unforgettable piece of literature
+ shattering
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The Holocaust in History (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry)
Michael R. Marrus
Plume, 1989
An excellent tool
+ The Holocaust in History
+ a classic
+ I am a high school student reviewing this book
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Hana Volavkova
Schocken, 1994
Insightful Book
+ Butterfly wings
+ poignant
+ The Butterfly Project
+ Great Book
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Survival In Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Touchstone, 1996
primo levi
+ Vivid Portrayal of Horror
+ "...man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly."
+ Direct and Powerful
+ Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
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Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
Lawrence L. Langer
Yale University Press, 1993
Vitally important text for Holocaust studies
+ holocaust
+ Should be included in any Holocaust library
+ you can't loose the opportunity of reading this book
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Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
Yitzhak Arad
Indiana University Press, 1999
Reporting the horrific
+ A Solid Overview of the Nazi Extermination Camps in German-Occupied Poland: Corrections Needed
+ feeling
+ A concise summary
+ EXHAUSTIVA Y RIGUROSA OBRA
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)
Simon Wiesenthal
Schocken, 1998
Is forgiveness possible when God takes a leave?
+ Showing Dignity during a horrific situation
+ Required Reading For All Humans
+ The Sunflower, Pain and Forgiveness, Past and Present
+ Great
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The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps
Terrence Des Pres
Oxford University Press, USA, 1980
Survivors live to witness
+ A bit academic.
+ Surviving
+ The most important book ever written about the Holocaust
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The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
Henry Friedlander
The University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Who Cries for the Different?
+ A well detailed view of the beginning of a nightmare
+ the second great one
Henry Friedlander provides a compelling and accurate portrayal of the origins of the Holocaust in the elimination of the mentally ill and physically handicapped. He starts with a description of the origins of German theories of racial superiority based upon social Darwinism which began long ...
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The Destruction of the European Jews
Raul Hilberg
Holmes & Meier, 1985
A Seminal Work on the Holocaust
+ One of the classic scholarly works regarding The Holocaust
+ Truly a masterpiece.
+ A WONDERFUL RESEARCH!
+ Obligatory
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Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
Indiana University Press, 1998
ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP
+ Terrific piece of literature
+ Expectations can ignore reality
+ cold autopsy
+ good, not entirely correct
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Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
Saul Friedlander
Harper Perennial, 1998
Great Work from A Great Historian
+ Nazi Germany and the Jews by Holocaust Survivor Friedlander is an essential history of a horrific period in History
+ Fantastic!
+ Excellent Intro to Hitler's Germany
+ What a shame
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Holocaust Literature: A Handbook of Critical, Historical, and Literary Writings
Greenwood Press, 1993
Over the past forty years, the term "Holocaust" has come to represent the deliberate campaign of extermination of Jews by the Nazis of Germany's Third Reich preceding and during World War II. Masses of edited documents and analytical material have been generated by Holocaust scholars, and some bibliographical and encyclopedic guides to the field are available. However, a student or researcher may ...
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