Germans Against Germans

Moshe Zimmermann is Richard M. Koebner Professor Emeritus for German History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism.

"The history of German Jews in the Nazi period is generally told as a history of deprivation of rights, expulsion, and exile, while the history of their destruction is subsumed under the history of European Jewry. Moshe Zimmermann is to be commended as the first to have rendered their distinct path to destruction a subject of portrayal: Their obstructed perception of their designated fate on the basis of their habitual legal comprehension of reality, their decency and their acceptance."—Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"To this brilliant new synthesis on the history of the Jews in the Third Reich, Moshe Zimmermann has brought a lifetime of learning on modern German and Jewish history. Germans against Germans explores the expectations and desires of contemporaries as they lived them, without knowing how history would turn up. This is essential reading for scholars in the field."—Alon Confino, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• List of Abbreviations1. The Decline of German Jewry2. The Tabula Rasa Policy3. "Days of Grace" in a Mousetrap4. From Quarantine to Depatriation5. Lost in the East6. Mischlinge, "Divers," and Virtual Jews7. "The Jews Were Our Misfortune"8. Jews as Germans Abroad9. Looking Back, Looking AheadBibliographyIndex