A deadly legacy : German Jews and the Great war

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The work A deadly legacy : German Jews and the Great war represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A deadly legacy : German Jews and the Great war

Title remainder

German Jews and the Great war

Statement of responsibility

Tim Grady

Creator

• Grady, Tim, (Timothy L)

Author

• Grady, Tim, (Timothy L)

Subject

• Germany
• Jewish soldiers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• 1900-1999
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews -- Germany
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish
• Jews, German -- History -- 20th century
• Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital food supplies. However, Grady's research goes much deeper: he shows that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany's warfare, but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy that enabled Hitler's rise to power and planted the seeds of the Holocaust to come"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

940.4/1343089924

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

D639.J4

LC item number

G73 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography