[lbo-talk] Reading suggestions needed

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 21 05:04:54 PDT 2008


Joanna, on the Holocaust, I would most recommend the following book:

Ruth Klüger - Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

(English translation of "Weiter leben. Eine Jugend.")

Also, andie already mentioned the one volume edition of Hilberg's Destruction of the European Jews.

A friend of mine also gave me the following as a gift recently:

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army 1941-1945

And while I realize he is not really beloved by American leftists because of his Zionism, Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners has played a a good role in public debate in Germany. At least as far as demolishing the German cult of victimhood which sees the population as merely passive objects of a personal dictatorship. Ignore the dishonest polemics which portray this book as promoting a "collective guilt" thesis.

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