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NEVER FORGET...LEST IT SHOULD HAPPEN AGAIN..., Mai 4 2008
This is a superlative story of two German families, one Jewish, one Aryan, caught in the insanity that was to tear Germany and the world apart. The Weiss family, more German than Jewish, would soon discover just how Jewish they really were, when the Nazi regime was firmly in place. The Dorf family, would find themselves with new opportunities under the Nazi regime, if only they would subscribe to the new Germany.
The fates of these two families artfully unfold through parallel stories, one told by Rudi Weiss, the other told by Erik Dorf. Through Rudi, an athletic, young man who refused to kowtow to the Nazis and, instead, became a partisan, the reader learns of the fate of the Weiss family, a family that was in denial as to what lay in store for them . Through Eric Dorf, a pleasant, young lawyer with an ambitious wife, the readers discovers how Eric becomes embroiled in the upper echelons of the Nazi regime, and how he transitions from being a rational human being to one that strains to find a rationale for the atrocities that he now affirmatively endorses.
This is a beautifully told saga, filled with the pain that was felt by those whose lives were torn asunder by the Nazis. What is also interesting about the book is that it includes depictions of Germans who did not support the policies of the Nazis and did what they could to thwart them. Those with an interest in the holocaust will love this book. It is a spellbinding work of fiction. Bravo!
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Great!, Nov. 23 2003
The destiny of two families - the Weiss and the Dorf - in touch at the beginning of the story but antagonist later are the main frame of this story in which the life of both families change roles; the Weiss, a middle high class family went down as a consequence of the nazi anti-jew laws and the Dorf, a poor unemployed couple that went up socially because of their adherence to the national socialism ideology.
Throughout the novel, the tale of Rubi, the sole survivor of the Weiss and the diary of Erik Dorf, the reader find out how the jews were deprived of their civil rights and citizenship, segregated, empoverished, persecuted, forced to live in guettos and finally exterminated in concentration camps as a final solution to the "jew problem" by the nazis who profited and enriched with the confiscated fortune, properties and slave force of the jews and the plundering of war as part of the hate policy against everybody considered non arian.
Very interesting the dialogue of both side of the story in which the reader can go deep into the thoughts of the antagonists and how the families face their situation and fate. Recommended for people interested in WWII and the holocaust.
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