Germans against Germans

"Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the storm--the German Jews--has received little attention. Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938-1945, tells this story--how Germans declared war against other Germans, that is, against German Jews. Author Moshe Zimmermann explores questions of what made such a war possible? How could such a radical process of exclusion take place in a highly civilized, modern society? What were the societal mechanisms that paved the way for legal discrimination, isolation, deportation, and eventual extermination of the individuals who were previously part and parcel of German society? Germans against Germans demonstrates how the combination of antisemitism, racism, bureaucracy, cynicism, and imposed collaboration culminated in 'the final solution.' "--

List of Abbreviations1. The Decline of German Jewry2. The Tabula Rasa Policy3. "Days of Grace" in a Mousetrap4. From Quarantine to Depatriation5. Lost in the East6. Mischlinge, "Divers," and Virtual Jews7. "The Jews Were Our Misfortune"8. Jews as Germans Abroad9. Looking Back, Looking AheadBibliographyIndex