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The Night of Broken Glass - by Uta Gerhardt & Thomas Karlauf (Paperback)

The Night of Broken Glass - by  Uta Gerhardt & Thomas Karlauf (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Ein einmaliges Zeitzeugnis und eine Sammlung von Augenzeugenberichten der Novemberpogrome 1938, der Reichskristallnacht. Erscheint erstmals in englischer Sprache mit einem Vorwort von Saul Friedländer, Pulitzer-Preisträger und Überlebender des Holocaust.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>An exceptional array of eyewitness accounts ... this fascinating collection honours the Holocaust's victims, as well as the sociologist who preserved their memories.<br /><i><b>Times Literary Supplement</b></i><br /><br />A fantastic asset for Holocaust historiography.<br /><i><b>European Review of History</b></i><br /><br />This riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews. The value of these testimonies lies above all in their detail and immediacy. Mostly they confirm the picture we already have from other sources, though few are as vivid as these.<br /><i><b>The Guardian</b></i><br /><br />Provides heartrending testimony of Nazi racial hatred.<br /><i><b>Tribune</b></i><br /><br />Taken together, these survivors' voices bring the focus back onto what is essential: human lives, their preservation and loss.<br /><i><b>Forward Magazine<br /></b><br /></i>This collection of eyewitness accounts of the end of Jewish life in Nazi Germany<br />is most valuable as an undergraduate course reading, where its immediacy and<br />personal detail can bring home the horrors which preceded the Holocaust.<br /><i><b>European History Quarterly</b></i><br /><br />There are few more powerful or moving collections of testimonies from the Jewish victims of the Nazi pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. This is an extraordinary collection that conveys the full extent of Nazi brutality towards Jews even before the 'Final Solution' had begun.<br /><b>Richard J Evans, Regius Professor of history at the University of</b> <b>Cambridge</b> <b>and author of <i>The Third Reich at War</i></b></p> <p>The testimonies about the pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938 and its sequels, assembled in this volume, describe what the authors deemed to be the height of Nazi barbarism. In reality, these events were but the faintest of preludes to what was about to happen to the Jews in Germany and in occupied Europe. Nonetheless, these reports carry a poignancy of their own that overwhelmingly evokes the suffocating and terror filled atmosphere of Jewish everyday existence in the Reich during those November days and the immediate pre-war months.<br /><b>Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of <i>The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945<br /><br /></i></b>What sets this anthology, edited by German sociologist Uta Gerhardt and literary agent Thomas Karlauf, apart from other firsthand accounts is the immediacy of the testimonies. All of the accounts reveal the degree to which their authors were traumatized by their experiences.<b><i><br /></i>S.Ross Doughty, Ursinus College</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Uta Gerhardt</b> is a German sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. She studied sociology, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. In 1969, she obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz.</p> <p><b>Thomas Karlauf </b>is a literary agent and author.</p>

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