The Years of Extermination (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of The Years of Extermination Saturday, October 31 2009.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 4 books, including The Years of Extermination, Thursday, October 22 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of The Years of Extermination Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added an award: Pulitzer Prize
• Added category of an award: Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction
• Added year of an award: Pulitzer Prize 2008

Timothy Gray changed the title of The Years of Extermination Monday, October 12 2009.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 4 books, including The Years of Extermination, Monday, October 12 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Years of Extermination Friday, July 31 2009.

• With The Years of Extermination , Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the cooperation of local authorities, the assistance of police forces, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. This implementation depended as well on the victims’ readiness to submit to orders, often with the hope of attenuating them or of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. This multifaceted study—at all levels and in different places—enhances the perception of the magnitude, complexity, and interrelatedness of the many components of this history. Based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices—mainly from diaries, letters, and memoirs—Saul Friedländer avoids domesticating the memory of these unprecedented and horrific events. The convergence of these various aspects gives a unique quality to The Years of Extermination . In this work, the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Years of Extermination Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Saul Friedlander: (Primary Author)