"The War Against the Jews 1933-1945"

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This paper examines how Jewish historian Lucy S. Davidowicz wrote "The War Against the Jews 1933-1945" to explain the annihilation of six million Jews during the Second World War by the German state under Adolf Hitler. It looks at how she sets out to prove the Second World War was in fact caused by the desire of Hitler and the German state he built, to exterminate the European Jews.

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"Considering the term "Jewish question" Davidowicz cites the "solution" offered by Constantine Pobyedonostsev, chief adviser to Czar Alexander III, in 1881: one-third of the Jews were to emigrate, one-third to convert, and one-third to die of hunger. She observes the National Socialists adopted this concept. She then considers what was a new element adopted by the National Socialists, embodied in the word "final." The main thrust of her argument is the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" in the National Socialist conception was not just another anti-Semitic undertaking, but a "metahistorical" program of judgment and death."

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