- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (April 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0253342937
- ISBN-13: 978-0253342935
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #695,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. Arad describes the founding, organization, personnel, prisoners, and victims of the three death camps and provides detailed chapters on the uprisings and escapes from Treblinka and Sobibor. He effectively employs extensive excerpts from Jewish, Polish, and German contemporary documents and later testimony by witnesses and participants. Arad is scrupulously careful to point out the limits of the available evidence. This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended for academic and public libraries. James B. Street, Santa Cruz P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Drawing on a wealth of evidence ... [Arad] lets the terrible record speak for itself... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go." New York Times Book Review " ... some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read... the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era." Raul Hilberg
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The mass extermination of the Jews of occupied Europe by Nazi Germany began with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Read the first page
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This review is from: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Paperback)
Among the first books I purchased to study the Holocost.The scholorship of this book is superb. Gives the reader a feeling for these awful places. You get to meet the human monsters who put these horrible places together and operated them. Just as you get to meet the innocent human beings who were slaughtered there. It is a cold expression of human evil in its coldest unemotional form. The cold facts are depressing. And an appetite killer for the unnitiated. Like all material on the Holocost, there is only depression from what is here. I only wish the death camp of Chlemno had been included in this work, for scholarly reasons. I know that Chelmno, the first of the death camps, used gas vans, and there are a fed other differences. But it would save the reader one less visit to hell to study.
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This review is from: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Paperback)
These three camps were put into full operation shortly after the assassination of Heydrich, the "brains" behind the Final Solution. Unlike concentration camps, these were extermination centers. Most were killed shortly after arrival. The man in charge seemed to be Christian Wirth, who can only be described as a beast in human form. Initially devoted to mass executions of Soviet POWs, the camps soon focused on liquidation of Jews once the Final Solution was put into full swing. Very little is known about the camps simply because there were so few survivors. These were truly some of the most dreadful camps, even though they operated for only a brief period.
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This review is from: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Paperback)
Comparando muchos libros sobre la tristísima célebre "Operación Reinhard", Yitzhak Arad ha conseguido con su obra aglutinar de una manera exhaustiva y rigurosa, toda la información posible sobre esos cruentos años. El libro es ciertamente desgarrador y a medida que pasan las pàginas, necesitas reflexionar sobre el devenir de la Humanidad. Pasaje a pasaje, logra nuestro estudioso autor, crear una trístemente cierta atmósfera tétrica sobre el comportamiento de los genocidas, su actitud hacia los prisioneros, evacuación de los Ghettos, construcción de las cámaras de gas, sublevación de los campos, etc... Sólamente hay un pequeño inciso que hubiera podido ser mejorado: una más profusa y densa biografía sobre los autores materiales del Holocausto. Salvaguardando este matiz, se puede considerar esta obra como la más completa y documentada de todo el género.
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