I started reading this book during the summer (just after I finished the first volume). A dense and horrible read that one cannot truly describe with any type of justice. I've personally been to many of the sites in this book describes in such descriptively nauseating detail. Auschwitz, Majdanek,...
In this first volume Friedlander concentrates on the policies of the Nazi regime toward the Jews during the years 1933-39, but also integrates the social context, both the attitudes of German society in general and the reactions to and perceptions of Nazi policies on the part of the Jewish popula...