Hitler's Death Camps

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Summary: An outstanding study,unmatched by any other work.
Review: Hitler's Death Camps by Konnilyn Feig is a remarkable analysis of the Concentration System. The first intense study of the systematic killing centers, offers clarity into an area of the past that we know very little about. More than a book about the camps, it allows us to put into perspective, indifference, human abuse, stugglers, oppression, killing, hatred, to know and denial. We must open our hearts and our minds to this book to truly understand the unspeakably cruelties that took place during the Holocaust so that we may never allow such an atrocity to take place again. Konnilyn Feig writes with a passion unlike anyone else. Hitler's Death Camps-Sanity of Madness should be read by all, for we all share a "common thread"-human decency.

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Summary: A necessary starting point
Review: I had always wanted to learn more about the holocaust. More than the flat dimensionless holocaust I learned in high school. That holocaust was tragic, but it was empty. It had no story or message. It had no people, save one. The gratuitious details were deemed unimportant, as what more do you need to know past its immorality?

Like many people, I always wished to know more. But the issue of where to start is not an easy one to deal with. On such an emotionally charged subject, it is crucial to find books that don't offend, but simply portray. Any offense must come from the holocaust itself. We cannot even begin to understand if we are told how to feel.

A good introductory book must also be comprehensive without being patronizing, and while the number of quality books focusing on the smaller aspects of the Holocaust continues to grow at a steady rate, we have to understand the bigger scheme of things before we can have the luxary of specializing.

So with all of these things in mind, is this book the perfect book for someone who knows absolutely nothing about the Holocaust? Of course not. This is not a history book in the strictest sense. If a person were to need a linear factual look at the Holocaust and the Second World War, there are many perfectly adequete books to fill that role.

But it is my potentially naive belief that the average human knows what the Holocaust is, and for these people this book is a tremendous resource. While many books can tell you the history of the Holocaust, few can tell the power and the emotion of it like Dr. Feig does. This is ultimately not a story of politics, war, or religion, but one of humans.

The story is at once familiar and unexpected, and despite being an incredibly easy read is an incredibly enriching one. The Holocaust is not a simple issue. It was not at the time, and it will always refuse to be reduced to that. To say that it is evil is not wrong, but not enough. Consider this book an introduction, a crossroads, a launchpad. The contents will not only give you the tools to learn more and come ever closer to the most difficult questions of the Holocaust, it will also plant in you a firm desire to seek them out.

With the tremendous help of heavy editing by his sister, Friedrich Nietzsche came to be confusingly regarded as a philosophical icon of the Nazi regime, in many ways a proto-Nazi. So it is both perfect irony and perfect justice that this book evokes in my mind Nietzsche's "Jenseits von Gut und Böse". In the end of a powerful message about morality and critical analysis, Nietszche shows his conception of what nobility is: a solitary, suffering soul, who has risen so far above the common rabble as to be unrecognizable and totally misunderstood by them. In her book, Dr. Feig shows that the strugglers are solitary, suffering souls. She shows that they are unrecognizable and totally misunderstood by the common rabble. But most importantly she shows that they are noble.

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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I have the honor of being one of Dr Feig's students studying Eastern European History. I have read many things she has written, this book, like everything else , is amazing. I highly recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: Brutally Honest
Review: I read this book when I was 16, after FINALLY watching a copy of "Schindler's List". From the moment I began the movie, I was entranced by the Holocaust and immediately wanted to read as much as I could about this dark time in Our History. As I expected, there isn't that much available to a 16 year old (I am 19 now), but this book was enough and then some! It is amazing how the author goes through EACH individual camp (major camp) and illuminates the reader as to what occured and what fate awaited not only the comandants, but the female SS officers. From this book, it is so easy to FEEL what the victims of the Holocaust felt and SEE the horror they witnessed. This is one of my most favorite books!

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Summary: What Horror Shall We Inflict Upon Ourselves?
Review: I'll be brief. A deeply disturbing account of Nazi concentration camps and the activities that took place at such locales. It is truly hard to imagine the abhorrent behavior and actions that were used against Jews, mainly Jews, and other non-sanctioned races designated by the National Socialist Worker's Party in the years before and throughout WWII. Feig guides the reader along a nightmarish tour of grisly death and, what many inhabitants of these camps must of felt, psychological hopelessness.

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Summary: A must for anyone who wants the truth about the Holocaust..
Review: This book is an amazing, detailed, and comprehensive look at humanity's darkest event. Konnilyn Feig broke ground in the subject over twenty years before the buzz of the Holocaust that is happening today. If you're interested in the recent lawsuits or the investigations into the actions of the allied and nuetral governments during the Holocaust-this book is of great improtance. HITLER'S DEATH CAMPS tells what happened, who was involved, who aided the Holocaust, who profited, who experimented, and how over 4 million Jews were systematically rounded up, transported, and sluaghtered. The accounts of horrors are chilling. It is simply a must read for anyone who wants to know all the happenings of the most savage events in human history.