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Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany
 
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Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany [Hardcover]

John Van Houten Dippel (Author)

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The author of Two Against Hitler, Dippel follows the lives of six relatively prominent German Jews from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor, until late 1938. The six are Hans-Joachim Schoeps, the leader of an extreme right-wing group; Nobel prize-winning chemist Richard Wilstatter; banker Max Warburg; Leo Baeck, who was Berlin's chief rabbi; columnist Bella Fromm; and journalist and editor Robert Weltsch. The thread that ties the six together is their decision to remain in Germany during the Nazi era.

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Based on the author's research in surviving personal letters, newspaper accounts, and archival records, this arresting book succeeds in explaining why vast numbers of German Jews decided to remain in their homeland during the Nazi terror. Dippel (Two Against Hitler, Greenwood, 1992) focuses on six leaders of the German-Jewish community, among them the renowned Rabbi Leo Baeck and the powerful financier Max Warburg. Through their life stories he shows how their deeply ingrained love of country produced delusionary hopes of coming to terms with the "new" Germany. These six were lucky enough to survive the terror, but, sadly enough, they influenced thousands of their fellow Jews to stay behind when they still had the chance to leave. Soon it was too late, and most of those who stayed perished in the "Final Solution." In an accessible style that will attract general readers as well as specialists, Dippel shows how the German Jews' intense love of the fatherland together with their historical, emotional, and economic ties to Germany blinded them to the reality of the fate that was in store for them. An important and original contribution to Holocaust studies; highly recommended.?Robert A. Silver, formerly with Shaker Heights P.L., Ohio
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars good representation of a concerned Jewish community, May 16 2000
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This review is from: Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
This book gives a good representation of what happened in the Jewish community as Hitler grew in power. This shows the transformation from a community that had little regard for a Jewish identity to being bonded together by that mere fact alone. Dippel shows the unfortunate internal struggles that prevented any full Jewish unity (from assimilation, emigration, & fighting back to denial and prejdice). It allows you to see just what was felt during a confusing time in Germany & what was being done about it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars interesting and readable book, misleading subtitle, Dec 24 2008
By Michael Lewyn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
The subtitle is a bit misleading since, as the book points out, about 2/3 of German Jews did leave Nazi Germany before 1940. Having said that, the book did teach me something I didn't know: over half of those Jews left during the last couple of years before WW 2, rather than leaving right after Hitler took power.

The book seeks to answer the question: Why did Jews dawdle? Because at first, it was unclear how bad Nazi oppression would be; in the mid-1930s, it seemed quite possible that Jews could still make a living in Nazi Germany. But by 1938, the situation was more desperate, and most Jews tried to leave.

If anything, the author fails to explain not why Jews stayed, but why so many were able to leave in the last years before the Holocaust. In 1938-39, most large countries were unwilling to accept a significant number of Jewish refugees. Yet over 100,000 German Jews managed to somehow leave Germany during those years. A better book would have explained how they managed to do it, and what separated the successful emigrants from those who tried to leave but couldn't.
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