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2019.
Language
English
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In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Just before Hitler came to power, Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein. Once the Nazis began to oppress Jews and others, Geist's role became vitally important. It was Geist who extricated Sigmund Freud from Vienna and Geist who understood the scale and urgency of the humanitarian crisis.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Draws from documents declassified over fifty years after the end of World War II to describe and analyze the degree to which the Nazis planned and improvised the Holocaust, the attitudes and participation of ordinary Germans in the killings, and the Western allies' knowledge of and reaction to the extermination of the Jews.
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English
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Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers. In an extensive examination of this impassioned...
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