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Title: "Life Unworthy of Life": Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany by James M. Glass ISBN: 0-465-09846-0 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for the Faint of Heart
Comment: While the subject mater is very disturbing, the writing stylings of Mr. Glass was even more so. To establish one's hypothesis in the begining is not uncommon, but to repeat it over and over distracts from the reading experience. I agree with the Kirkus Review, that the non-specialist steer clear of this one. An examination of the Final Solution and the society that enabled it's evolution is extreamly important at this time for two reasons: a. over time our picture of the event fades, b. it is applicable today more than ever. This book is the reason I support our public libraries.
Rating: 5
Summary: 'Life Unworthy of Life' is wonderful!
Comment: In his latest book, 'Life Unworthy of Life,' James M. Glass has artfully crafted a masterpiece in the fields of Holocaust literature and political psychology. He boldly challenges the reader to consider each idea he presents and come to his/her own conclusion. What may be ultimately difficult for the reader is that there is truly only one conclusion to come to: that the author is right. Many books written on the subject of the Holocaust present controversial theses as to the mindset, breadth of relevant knowledge of "what was really going on," and unique-monster attributes of every key (and not so key) individual involved in the mass slaughter of six million Jews. It is extraordinarily difficult to make palpable to a reader something so distasteful as the notion that an entire society or "race" could knowingly, systematically and enthusiastically murder so many. What is even harder to swallow is that there were signs and evidence along the way that The Final Solution would be the end result and yet, there was little to no mass repudiation within Weimar and Third Reich/Nazi society. James Glass has constructed a convincing argument in 'Life Unworthy of Life' and the reader ultimately must confront something within himself/herself and grapple with the notion that ordinary people will do and in fact HAVE DONE extraordinarily horrific things for irrational and illogical reasons. What's more, millions upon millions of people cooperated and agreed, volunteered and eagerly participated in the systematic dehumanization, destruction and mass murder of an entire people and culture. One lunatic is easy to understand. Millions of "normal" people going along with popular and ingrained sentiment which encourages and embraces hate and ostracization (leading to death) is not so easy to understand. James Glass explains it beautifully.
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Title: Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History (4th Edition) by Jackson J. Spielvogel ISBN: 0139759964 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 17 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt ISBN: 0393325245 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis by Robert N. Proctor ISBN: 0674745787 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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