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[A] welcome complement to historians’ accounts of Jewish reactions to Nazipersecution before 1939. It richly maps the spatial, emotional and psychologicaleffects of social abandonment, propaganda and the atomization of everyday lifethat made many Jews come to feel what National Socialist policy had alwaysintended-that they were Germans no more. H-GermanIn 1940, Harvard University sent out a call to all German-Jewish refugees todescribe their experiences both before and after 1933. These invaluable documentswere only discovered in the University archives some fifty years later by the editorsof this volume. The memoirs, written so soon after the emigration whenimpressions were still vivid, movingly and tellingly describe the gradualdeterioration of the living conditions for Jews in Germany in the time periodleading up to the war-the daily humiliations they had to suffer, and theirdesperate attempts to leave Germany.A great deal is written about Nazi Germany during war time, yet little is knownabout the years that preceded the war. Based on these collected eyewitnessaccounts, and with an informative introduction that places these experienceswithin a wider historical framework, this important book sheds new light on thistime period. As this collection powerfully illustrates, these preceding years provideimportant clues and insights to the events that took place after November 1938,culminating in the Holocaust. Any attempt to come to grips with this dark period inhistory must take the revelations provided in this book into account.Margarete Limberg studied political science at the universities of Hamburg andBerlin. She is working as a broadcaster for German radio in Berlin. Her special areasof interest are contemporary history and policies in the arts and education.Hubert Rübsaat studies history, sociology, philosophy, and education at theUniversity of Cologne. He works as broadcaster for North German radio where heheads the section on contemporary history and policies in education.Alan Nothnagle has taught history at the University of Iowa and the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. He currently lives and works as a freelancewriter and translator in Berlin.
