The Path to Death: The Survival Situation of German Jews during the Nazi Regime

Author: Luo Henglin
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is guided by dialectical materialism and historical materialism, employing theories from anthropology, theology, and sociology. It adopts an interdisciplinary research method and, based on a thorough review of a large amount of German-language materials, conducts a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth study of the living conditions of German Jews during the Nazi regime. The book focuses on discussing the social groups, occupational structure, characteristics and spiritual life, self-rescue activities, and survivors of German Jews. It summarizes three phases of the Nazi regime's persecution of German Jews: the first phase from April 1933 to November 1938, the second phase from November 1938 to October 1941, and the third phase from October 1940 to May 1945. On this basis, the author summarizes these three phases as the "social death," "spiritual death," and "physical death" of German Jews, thereby systematically organizing the entire process of the Nazi regime's persecution of German Jews.