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Author Grady, Tim (Timothy L.), author.

Title A deadly legacy : German Jews and the Great war / Tim Grady
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents Precedents -- War enthusiasm -- Total war -- Annexations -- Celebrating destruction -- The "Other" -- Breakdown -- Myths of Defeat -- The End
Summary "This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital food supplies. However, Grady's research goes much deeper: he shows that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany's warfare, but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy that enabled Hitler's rise to power and planted the seeds of the Holocaust to come"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2019)
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews -- Germany
Jewish soldiers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Jews, German -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Collective memory
Jewish soldiers
Jews
Jews, German
Military participation -- Jewish
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300231236
0300231237