Book, Nazi Germany and the Jews 1st the years of persecution1933-39[LS]

The success and acceptance of the ideas and political preaching of Nazism by the elites and the mass of the German people, which became the foundation of the Third Reich, culminated in the barbaric crimes committed during the Second World War and, for this reason, continue to occupy a disturbing and central place in the historical consciousness of humanity, in a mix of perplexity and ignominy, denial and disdain, whose projection iconically focuses on the figure of its leader. Without Hitler, in fact, Teutonic national socialism would probably not have existed as such, since the implementation of its racist extermination machine required a character with enormous charisma, influence, ability to unite and mobilize the masses and their leadership. If this made the Nazi Party dependent on the führer in its main decisions, on the one hand, not really, on the other, it is enough to explain why the mechanism worked so well. Certainly, it would be necessary not only to go back to the historical-ideological roots developed by the political processes of post-Bismarckian Germany, so ingrained in the Germanic geist, but also to the socioeconomic consequences of the collapse in the First World War. It was these elements that gave rise to the pathological agents that began to circulate through the mentality and body of the conflictual society of the Weimar Republic and that gave rise to the fury of the führer racial savior.In Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933 -1939, Saul Friedländer states as the fundamental cause of the operational success of the Jewish genocide 'redemptive anti-Semitism [...], this synthesis between a murderous rage and an 'idealistic' goal, shared by the Nazi leader and the hard core of the party', noting, however, the Nazi leader did not make his decisions independently of the party and government organizations. His initiatives [...] were shaped not only by his worldview, but also by the impact of internal pressures, the weight of bureaucratic limitations, the influence of German public opinion as a whole, and even the reactions of foreign governments and opinions of the German government. outside'.Other factors, however, also contributed to history taking the direction it did and must be taken into account. To what extent was this ideological obsession shared by the party and the population as a whole? How did German streets receive laws like those of Nuremberg? How did Jews view the rise of the National Socialist Party? What role did ordinary people and personalities play in the face of hate speech and the escalation of racial and political violence, which included not only Jews, but also gypsies, homosexuals, the physically disabled and, in the long term, the 'inferior races' 'submitted to Aryan supremacy? Saul Friedländer seeks answers in Nazi Germany and the Jews, whose unconventional approach earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. The publisher Perspectiva now brings to the Brazilian public the first of two volumes of this work, which makes up a detailed, powerful and consistent overview , which combines academic rigor with a writer's perspective, driven both by the strength of the memory of those who lived through the horrors of war, and by the historian's discipline, when focusing on the topic with dignity and critical distance. In the vast literature on Nazism and the Holocaust, this is undoubtedly an indispensable reference work.