The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom
by Adam Hilberg
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Author: Adam HilbergEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-25
ISBN: 1566632307
Number of pages: 444
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Book Review: Hell in a small place
Summary: 5 Stars
This diary is a must read for those who would study the Holocaust. It is a study of a decent man under indecent circumstances. He does what he can to help but, in so doing, he necessarily is complicit with the Nazis. If he had been able to foretell the end result, he may have taken a different path. He couldn't. The Holocaust was a work in progress and didn't, even from the Nazi perspective, start as a plan for annihilation. It started as a plan to contain and control people, many of whom were non-Jews.
Czerniaikow did as much as he could to protect his increasingly confined and crowded people. His success made the end all the more terrible. His document is that of the complexities and irrationality of a system terrible beyond its own expectations. Yes, Czerniakow, as a leader, was complicit but he did as well as he could.
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