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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany. It analyzes the nature of modern German anti-Semitism, the decision-making process precipitating the Nazi mass murder of European Jews, and the role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust.
Trade Review'Francis Nicosia's book contains extensive archival material on one of the most controversial topics in German-Jewish history … This will ensure a place for it in every library collection on German-Jewish Studies.' The European Legacy
'[The author's] laudable book notably abstains from any moral indignation or anti-Zionist posturing.' Journal of Central European History
'University of Vermont historian Francis R. Nicosia has presented an impressive study of the relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in the Third Reich … Nicosia vehemently rejects the argument that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. The necessary contact and the level of cooperation of the German Zionists with the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1941 can in no way be construed as a secret arrangement or collaboration.' Jüdische Allgemeine
'Nicosia has analyzed an impressive number of documents from German and Zionist archives … In [the] important … chapter [on] the cooperation between Zionists and National Socialists, Nicosia emphasizes that in no way was it about equal parties, but rather about the persecutors and those they persecuted - and that the latter were sent to their deaths as soon as the Nazi state no longer had any use for them.' translated from Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The age of emancipation in imperial Germany; 3. The Weimar years; 4. 1933: Nazi confusion, Zionist illusion; 5. Zionism in Nazi Jewish policy, 1934–8; 6. German Zionism, 1934–8: confrontation with reality; 7. Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934–8; 8. Zionist occupational retraining and Nazi Jewish policy; 9. From dissolution to final solution; 10. Conclusions.
