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Its many perspectives show how genocide was organized, experienced, and enabled.
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
Saul Friedländer2008 selection · Nonfiction
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
A comprehensive Holocaust history integrating Nazi policy, occupied societies, and victims' contemporary testimony.
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You seek rigorous, humane twentieth-century history.
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