A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today. Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the ?machinery of destruction? but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German Railroads, Jewish Soulscenters around Hilberg?s seminal essay of the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes. ?This important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial questions...
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