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POLIAKOV Leon : Harvest of Hate

Elek, London, 1956

8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacket handling soiled with taped split at heel of upper joint, splits at corner folds, name to fep, spine leans slightly, tidy copy, xiv 338pp + plates, the nazi extermination program from its vague and unformulated beginnings, through to the mechanisation of the extermination along the eastern front. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good

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POLIAKOV**, LEON: : HARVEST OF HATE.**

LONDON.ELEK,1956.

UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn.Minimal shelf-wear to edges;slight rubbing to upper bd's bottom corner and slight bumping to other corners.Top edge dust-soiled and darkened with fore-edges lightly aged and lightly foxed/spotted.Contents,apart from the front+rear feps which have slight off-set foxing, are bright,tight and clean.No other ink annotation, underling noticed throughout the rest of the book.Black paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip which are slightly dulled and rubbed with miniscule loss.Book is slightly cocked.8vo,xiv+1-338pp includes a b/w map frntis, intro by Lord Russell of Liverpool;fore-words by Francois Mauriac (from the French edn, which has some light, ink underling of 3 lines and 2 words with ink X to 3 paragraphs) and Rienhold Niebuhr (from the US edn), author's intro which has 2 words ink underlined, 4pp b/w photographs, appendix and an index. This book is devoted to the most tragic page in Jewish history - the extermination in cold blood of six million Jewish men, women, and children, with the result that in a few short years the total number of the European Jews was reduced by two-thirds.Such blood-letting is without precedent in European history;the Nazi enterprise was unique in its very principle.But to treat this subject is also to treat a part of of the history of contemporary Germany, for in the actual event the Jews were chiefly passive victims;the active role, that of the protagonist in the tragedy, fell to the German people as a group, acting under the stimulus of leaders of their own choice. When one reflects that we are dealing here with a highly civilized nation that for many years was a torch-bearer of Western society, one realises that we are concerned with an anti-Semitic problem that is intrinsic to our entire Western civilization, an aberrant and pathological phenomenon that lay at the very centre of the 1939-45 catastrophe;the general interest of mankind, as well as the more particular question of the future of the European community, demand that we study closely the Nazi war on the Jews.Such insights into these matters, however, as the subject suggests will only be briefly touched on;the main purpose is to compile a documentary and psychological record, so that the reader can judge for themself and draw their own conclusions.Some of the documents cited in this book are so disconcerting and improbable, some readers may be tempted to question their authenticity.For have we not already seen the disappearance of publications in which doubt is cast on the number of Jewish victims and on a great many other things? The author states that the majority of the quotations given, especially those of German origin, come either from the Nazis archives captured by the Allies or from the records of the Nuremberg Tribunal (wherever possible, to forestall objections, the executioners are quoted rather than the victims);the original records are now either at The Hague or in Washington, as the case may be.In all the polemics that raged around the Nuremberg trials, the authenticity of these records was never questioned even by the most rabid detractors of Allied justice. Photostatic reproductions or certified copies of these documents, as well as originals from other sources, are located in the Centre du Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris, an institution established by its (then 1956) present president, M. Schneerson, in 1943. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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