The Nazi Holocaust

I read this book for a class at ASU. It is an easy read, and contains lots of information. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Holocaust and not just as a textbook for class.

Thoroughly researched book, includes history of the Jews from the beginning. Best book of its type that I've ever read. Ronnie Landau puts it all together.

the horrors one man created.

but still essential. i wouldn't want to examine it as a narrative; landau's essentially offering facts and tying them together chronologically- but as a one-volume overview of the Holocaust, it works wonderfully- and tragically. by detaching the stories from the context of the German political environment of the time, landau underscores exactly how systemic the process was. one day, the Jews lost their bench-sitting privileges; the next, they lost their radios; the next, they lost their ability to own businesses; and on and on, until the reader is brought to the camps, there to meet the horrors firsthand and to see, straightforwardly and without pretense, the nature of the operations. this is not the book to pick up if you're looking for a readable holocaust summary. but does such an event warrant a summary? i can't think of one right now, save, perhaps, "the destruction of the european jews." but that's hardly "readable."my best bet for Holocaust study? read this for an overview, along with "the destruction..."; read anne frank, of course, and etty hillesum for the personal experience- and fit victor klemperer into the mix if you have time; he gives a sense of what was being experienced by a fully-formed adult during that time; read "the theory and practice of hell" for the technical aspects of the camps; read "why did the heavens not darken?" (flawed yet worthy) for a modern philosophical consideration of the whole dark mass, along with, of course, "hitler's willing executioners" (again, flawed, and much more insidiously so) and its refutation, "a nation on trial"; read "the nazis- a pictorial history" for photos that will remind you that this happened on days much like this one; and read "truth and lamentation", if it's still available, for a shot at what those in the ghettos and the slums and the camps were doing while they weren't being slaughtered.these titles all imply that this subject can't be gently summed up. which is the way it should be.

For my son for school

for my sister for school

Great history book about the Jews, Germans, and antisemitism. I bought it for my class that I am taking it was required.