Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the stormthe German Jewshas received little attention.Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 19381945, tells this storyhow Germans declared war against other Germans, that is, against German Jews.

Author Moshe Zimmermann explores questions of what made such a war possible? How could such a radical process of exclusion take place in a highly civilized, modern society? What were the societal mechanisms that paved the way for legal discrimination, isolation, deportation, and eventual extermination of the individuals who were previously part and parcel of German society?

Germans against Germans demonstrates how the combination of antisemitism, racism, bureaucracy, cynicism, and imposed collaboration culminated in "the final solution."

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

List of Abbreviations
1. The Decline of German Jewry
2. The Tabula Rasa Policy
3. "Days of Grace" in a Mousetrap
4. From Quarantine to Depatriation
5. Lost in the East
6. Mischlinge, "Divers," and Virtual Jews
7. "The Jews Were Our Misfortune"
8. Jews as Germans Abroad
9. Looking Back, Looking Ahead
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