{"product_id":"the-years-of-extermination-nazi-germany-and-the-jews-19391945-isbn-9780060930486","title":"The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure.\" — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Years of Extermination\u003c\/em\u003e, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of the Holocaust, the most systematic and sustained of modern genocides.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unparalleled work—based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs—the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. \u003cem\u003eThe Years of Extermination\u003c\/em\u003e, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. In this unparalleled work—based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs—the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A masterful synthesis that draws on a lifetime of learning and research.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this second compelling volume of Friedländer’s history of the Holocaust (see its predecessor, Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939), the author takes into account recent scholarship on the Holocaust but avoids bogging down in the intentionalist\/functionalist historiographic debate.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander is a follow-up to his early work… which together provide a remarkable comprehensive history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Friedlander’s book offers a useful, updated panorama of the events of the Holocaust.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The second volume, like the first, lends the impression that ‘you are there,’ a witness with a kaleidoscopic panorama of history that juxtaposes the cries and whispers of ordinary men, women and children against the sadistic bombast of Hitler, his henchmen and their many helpers eager to indulge villainous appetites and vicious prejudices. These stories are woven together in a tapestry that comes to life (and death) by the vivid recall of eyewitnesses to what they otherwise could not have believed.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most important works of historical writing in recent years, and deserves to live in the company of works by Raul Hilberg, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Leni Yahil as one of the finest comprehensive studies of this darkest subject of all.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Saul Friedlander’s massive history of the Holocaust is a judicious, authoritative and restrained study. But it’s also a stark reminder that lunacy may have been as much a part of Nazism as cruelty.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A monumental triumph. . . . I have no hesitation in ranking Friedlander’s two volumes as among the very best that we have so far.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatt Nesvisky, Jerusalem Report\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887366009061,"sku":"NP9780060930486","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060930486.jpg?v=1730225980","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-years-of-extermination-nazi-germany-and-the-jews-19391945-isbn-9780060930486","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}