Perpetrators Victims Bystanders - The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945
Raul Hilberg is one of the great scholars of our century. More than anyone else, he has exposed the behavior and thought processes of ordinary people carrying out a genocidal project. In this book he does something deceptively simple. He evokes for us the lives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in the Nazi mass-murder of Jews. By juxtaposing these stories and categories, while keeping them appropriately separate, he enables us to gain new access to what took place. Hilberg has given us a profound lesson in humanity and in inhumanity.