Lucy dawidowicz hitler biography
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LUCY S. DAWIDOWICZ
An excerpt from the essay "This Wicked Man Hitler"
published in The Holocaust and the Historians (Harvard University Press, ); this excerpt is from pp.
Despite the recent outpouring of popular and scholarly books on Hitler, no work has yet been produced that satisfactorily explains Hitler's obsessive ideas about the Jews, the readiness of the German people to accept those ideas, and Hitler's ability to harness an enormous apparatus of men, institutions, and facilities 'lust in order to murder the Jews. Hitler has proved to be an elusive and unrewarding subject for conventional biography because the explanations for the baffling mystique he exercised, for the power he came to wield, and for his unspeakable accomplishments are not to be funnen in the facts of a banal life, but in the ideas and feelings that created the symbiosis between him and the German people. Their mutuality and interdependence thrived, as Hitler first expressed and later gratified the G
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Lucy Dawidowicz
American historian and writer (–)
Lucy Dawidowicz | |
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| Born | Lucy Schildkret ()June 16, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 5, () (aged&#;75) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma&#;mater | Hunter College |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author |
Lucy Dawidowicz (née Schildkret; June 16, – December 5, ) was an American historian and writer. She wrote books about modern Jewish history, in particular, about the Holocaust.[1]
Life
[edit]Dawidowicz was born in New York City as Lucy Schildkret.[2] Her parents, högsta and Dora (née Ofnaem) Schildkret, Jewish immigrants from Poland, were secular-minded with little interest in religion. Dawidowicz did not attend a service at a synagogue until [3]
Dawidowicz's first interests were poetry and literature. She attended Hunter College from to and obtained a B.A. in English. She went on to study for a M.A. at Columbia University, but abandoned he
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The War Against the Jews
non-fiction book by Lucy Dawidowicz
The War Against the Jews is a book by Lucy Dawidowicz. The book researches the Holocaust of the European Jewry during World War II.
The author contends that Adolf Hitler pursued his policies to eliminate Jewish populations throughout Europe even to the detriment of pragmatic wartime actions such as moving troops and securing supply lines. As an example, Dawidowicz notes that Hitler delayed railcars providing supplies to front line troops in the Soviet Union so that Jews could be deported by rail from the USSR to death camps. She uses records of "one-way" rail tickets as additional documentation of those sent to camps.
Dawidowicz also draws a line of "anti-Semitic descent" from Martin Luther to Hitler, writing that both men were obsessed by the "demonologized universe" inhabited by Jews. She contends that similarities between Luther's anti-Jewish writings, especially On the Jews and Their Lies, and modern ant