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A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project
Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years.
The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves—where they came from and where they were heading—and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration—and justification—for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable.
- Sales Rank: #269921 in Books
- Brand: Confino, Alon
- Published on: 2015-04-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x .70" w x 6.10" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Review
“Insightful [and] chilling. . . . Represents Nazism less as a ‘banality of evil’ and more as an ‘intimate brutality.’”—Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Reviews)
“Well written [and] provocative.”—Frederic Crome, Library Journal (Frederic Crome Library Journal)
“Quietly devastating . . . [a] short, staggering new book . . . an absolutely horrifying portrait . . . at once so disturbing and so hypnotic to read . . . in clear, unsparing prose . . . . Deserves the widest possible audience.”—Steve Donoghue, Open Letters (Steve Donoghue Open Letters)
“Confino has done a great service by drawing our attention to the mythic dimension of the Nazis’ apocalyptic war against the Jews.”—David Biale, Los Angeles Review of Books (David Biale Los Angeles Review of Books)
From the Author
An excerpt from A World Without Jews:
A history of the Holocaust must include the history of emotions and imagination of Germans during the Third Reich, for the fundamental reason that the persecution and extermination was built on fantasy. In persecuting and exterminating the Jews, Germans waged a war against an imaginary enemy that had no belligerent intentions toward Germany and possessed no army, state, or government.
The essential motivations for this war were not practical, for Germans and Jews did not have a conflict over territory, land, resources, borders, or political power that often characterizes cases of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the modern world. In the mind of the Nazis, this was a war about identity. Nothing about Nazi anti-Semitism was driven by a desire to provide a truthful account of reality. Yet it was nonetheless believed by many Germans and therefore was for them real and truthful.
A key to understanding this world of anti-Semitic fantasies is no longer to account for what happened—the administrative process of extermination, the racial ideological indoctrination by the regime, and the brutalizing war—because we now have sufficiently good accounts of these historical realities. Rather, a key is to account for what the Nazis thought was happening, for how they imagined their world. What was this fantasy created by Nazis and other Germans during the Third Reich, and the story that went along with it, that made the persecution and extermination of the Jews justifiable, conceivable, and imaginable?
About the Author
Alon Confino is professor of History at the University of Virginia and at Ben Gurion University, Israel. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.
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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
The Story of an Obsession
By Grey Wolffe
How do you define obsession? Under the Nazis, the Germans were determined to rid the world of the Jews. They spent more material and manpower (except for making war) on the destruction of a ‘people’ to the point where it may have become a factor in the loss of WW2. Even as the massive Soviet offensive was bearing down on the Reich in 1944, precious railway locomotives and rolling stock was used to transport over 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.
How do you explain that one of the most advanced cultures in the world became obsessed with destroying a miniscule part (0.75%) of their population? In 1933 there were 500,000 Jews in Germany out of a population of 66 million. Beginning on January 31, 1933 the Nazis turned the power of their State to liquidating the Jews. In 1944 when there were less than 100,000 Jews left in Greater Germany, Goebbels (the Minister of Propaganda) spent a part of his daily speeches excoriating the Jews.
Why this all-consuming hatred, and how did the Nazis indoctrinate their countrymen to a point where average Germans were ‘happy’ to participate in this destruction. First you stigmatize, then you denigrate, then you humiliate then you segregated, then you obliterate. The Nazis not only put into action their plan to eliminate the Jews from German society, this plan included eradicating them from memory except as a demon destroyed. In some of their first actions against the Jews they destroyed the cultural infrastructure by burning the Torahs (Old Testament) and Synagogues. By 1939 almost every Synagogue in Germany had been destroyed. Many had been leveled and turned into car parks.
But it wasn’t just the Jews in Germany. The 3 million Jews in Poland and the 1.5 million in the Soviet Union that came under German rule were all destroyed. How obsessive, in 1944 when pulling out of Greece, the 2000 Jews on the island of Corfu (a Sephardic remnant from the Jews who had left Spain in 1492) were taken to Auschwitz. Why destroy people who had nothing to do with Germany except that they were the cultural co-religionist of a “hated” people? That’s what this book is about, an unexplainable obsession and how the German people willingly became an accomplice to this genocide.
Well written and documented. Great Read
Zeb Kantrowitz
27 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
A highly disturbing view of how genocide can take hold
By Fuzzy's Mom
Seldom have I read a book that so disturbed me making it difficult to continue but was so compelling that I could not put it down. As a student of WWII and the Holocaust, I thought I understood not only what happened but why it happened. So often ordinary Germans say they did not know, that had they known they might have done differently.
This book knocks the excuses on their proverbial behinds.
Mr. Confino shows how the systematic persecution that was supported by the average German morphed into the Final Solution. It was fine when the lives of Jews were curtailed and trivialized...in fact, it played into the prevailing anti-semitism of Christianity in Europe. It was not unusual to cull Jews from time to time. However, the Nazis took it one step further.
In order to recreate a new "morality" and world, they needed not only to rewrite history and tradition from eliminating the Old Testament (too Jewish!) from Christianity to eliminating Jews from Germany first and Europe thereafter. The complicity of the people, the scholars and the church are horrifying. That there are evil people in the world is no surprise. That so many could endorse and support this is depressing.
This is an important book, well researched and written. However, read it at your own peril. You will never look at Germany or Germans the same way.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Well Documented Look at the Causes of the Holocaust
By Maxine McLister
"The Holocaust should be placed within a history of Nazi war and occupation, empire building, and comparative genocide. The Holocaust was not unique. But it was perceived during the war as unique by German Jews, and other Europeans, and if we want to understand why the Holocaust happened, we ought to explain this."
In his book, A World Without Jews, author Alon Confino looks at many of the controversies and questions that still surround the Holocaust. Was the persecution of the Jews led from the top down by the Nazi leaders and were the German people aware of what was really happening to the Jewish peoples of Europe? Did Christian Churches play a role and, if so, to what extent? Confino looks at both primary and secondary sources and creates a horrifying picture of complicity and awareness of the German people including both the Catholic and Protestant Churches. He also includes many shocking photographs from the period including one of an effigy of a Jewish man hanging from a lamp post and signs outside of towns declaring them `Jew-free'.
It is often pointed out that other genocides were just as horrendous if not worse if the only criteria is body count and Confino concedes that. However, it is his contention that, although the Holocaust is not unique, it must be seen as separate from other genocides. He points out, for example that in the genocide of the Ukrainians by the Soviet Union during the 1930s, the Soviets did not ask other countries to send their Ukrainian citizens to be exterminated - what separates the Holocaust from other genocides was the extent to which the Nazis set out to create a world without Jews, not just a single country.
He contends that the Nazis weren't motivated by past prejudice against the Jews although they were more than willing to use it to gain the support and complicity of the German populace. What they were seeking was a completely new and radical world in which a Christian Germany would be created without any ties or debt to the past. The Jews, with their long presence in Germany and with the obvious connection between the God of both Judaism and Christianity, represented that past. In their attempt to deny the debt owed by Christianity and Germany to Judaism, the Germans not only persecuted the Jews and destroyed their temples but they also burned and desecrated the Hebrew Bible, a fact that has been mainly overlooked in discussions about the Holocaust. The Old Testament was banned in German Churches. It is in this imagining of this new German Reich that the Nazis began to conceive of this world completely devoid of Jewish influence or presence.
"But the Nazis did imagine a clear narrative arch of the relations between Germans and Jews from the dawn of history to the present. Right from the beginning they were certain about one thing, which did not change until the last day of the Reich: the Jews and their historical roots, real or invented from the Bible down to the modern period, must be eliminated at all costs and whatever the consequences. The Nazis did not leave standing one cultural edifice that implied a cultural debt to the Jews: this amounted to making a new civilization by uprooting a key element of their own roots."
With this book, Alon Confino answers unconditionally the question of whether the German people including the Catholic and protestant Churches knew and were complicit in the persecution of the Jews. It gives a well-documented and damning explanation of what led to the Holocaust and should be on the reading list of anyone who wants to see a world without genocide.
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