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Original Title:	"Schöne Zeiten" : Judenmord aus der Sicht der Täter und Gaffer
ISBN:	1568521332 (ISBN13: 9781568521336)
Edition Language:	English

The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

Ernst Klee

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 538 Users | 46 Reviews

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Holocaust literature keeps moving on.
At first, there was a flood of survivor memoirs, and some continue today (especially self-published books as the aging survivors want to leave a legacy before they die). The trend in recent years is well illustrated by this title, a closer look at the perpetrators; it answers the question "How could anyone do such things?"
One of the earliest efforts was included in "Human Behavior in the Concentration Camp," (1953), a combination memoir and essay by a well-known survivor, Dr. Elie Cohen. While concentrating on the prisoners under death-sentence, there is an insightful chapter included, "The Psychology of the SS." This chapter, perhaps, marks the beginning of this genre.
Other publications (including "Ordinary Men" (1992), and "Hitler's Willing Executioners" (1996)) looked at sociological source material to understand the psychology and social background of the men who had to "pull the trigger" so to speak, in order for millions to be murdered in such a short time.
Here, the editors ferret out eyewitness accounts by the perpetrators, written during and immediately after the War. Here, the perpetrators speak for themselves. The result is some insight into how ordinary citizens -- perhaps you and I under the same circumstances -- could justify being called upon to kill women and children on an assembly line basis.
Written by the killers as they killed, the holocaust is seen "up close and personal," brought down in scale to the reality of one-on-one experiences. Among other things, we learn that the earliest experiments in genocide required executioners to shoot their victims with rifles, one-on-one. Not very effective. We also learn that German soldiers did not face severe consequences if they refused to participate. The careerist would lose his career, of course, but otherwise they were reassigned without prejudice.
How could ordinary people become murderers? It's all in a days work, it seems.

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Title	:	The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
Author	:	Ernst Klee
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1996 by William S. Konecky Associates (first published 1988)
Categories	:	History. World War II. Holocaust. Nonfiction. War. European History. Politics

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Very hard to read but anyone who thinks another Holocaust couldn't happen should.

One the most interesting books about Holocaust. The times of horror seeing by Perpetrators as The Good Old Days. Taking "samples" of body parts of living humans, like if they are just a laboratory animals, killing them with injection. But taking good care about they animals and about the families at home. Nothing can make you understand more the evil idea of Holocaust. I find this book again on my shelf by reading a short article about one 95 years old man, who will stand a trail in Germany for

Casual Killing Ernst Klees THE GOOD OLD DAYS differs from most books on the Holocaust in that rather than writing a historical perspective, he provides damning evidence of the extent of German involvement in mass murder.THE GOOD OLD DAYS is mostly a collection of correspondence, testimony and other documents from those who witnessed, facilitated, ordered and/or participated in the murder of Jews on the Eastern Front. While names like Mengele, Himmler and Heydrich are innately associated with the

It's all of the gruesome details you thought were out there but are hard to find. You keep reading and then are upset you did, closing the book with a sick feeling in your stomach. It's interesting to hear the story from the Nazi side. Several letters home and journal entries capture a range from indifference to total disgust by Nazi's. It's Fascinating how many other ethnicities willingly participated in beatings and firing squads after the German's occupied their country. It was also perverse

You've read and heard about the atrocities against the Jews all your life. Book after heart-rending book has been written.But have you heard the story from the other side? Read this book. I mean read this book. It's fascinating.Journal extracts, interrogations, memos, personal recollections and other sources of information were collected and edited to allow us to see the German side. It is definitely a MUST read.This is Arendt's "banality" of evil. Few of the people here are the "monsters" we're

Thoroughly terrifying. As I read this, I was forced to ask myself what I might have done if I'd been there. That seemed like an easy question to answer before but when the darkest, most vicious instincts of mankind are laid bare, as they are in this account, it no longer seems so simple.While many of the perpetrators (perhaps ALL of the ringleaders) one encounters in The Good Old Days are clearly monstrous from the outset, waiting only for an opportunuty to unleash their basest natures on their

Absolutely required reading. You won't find any levity in this. Never read anything so boldfaced, simple and hard to contemplate: the pure mechanics of it all. Read in Exeter on a bad day.