Die deutschen Juden 1914-1945

Pp. 1-77 contain a sociological description of Jewish life in Germany during the First World War and the Weimar period, including the growing influence of antisemitism. Argues that Jews were not nearly as dominant in Weimar culture, politics, and the economy as alleged by antisemites. Traces Nazi measures for the exclusion of Jews from society - their humiliation, forced emigration and expulsion, and finally deportation. Deals with Jewish perceptions of the danger, and the reactions of Jewish organizations. Pp. 79-139 discuss scholarly literature on central issues, among them the continuity of antisemitism from the Wilhelmine to the Weimar to the Nazi period; periodization of Nazi anti-Jewish policy and the question of intentionalism vs. functionalism; the discontinuity between the measures against the Jews in Germany until 1939 and their murder in the context of the Holocaust of all the European Jews. Pp. 141-160 contain a bibliography.