{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-the-james-f-tent-9780700612284","title":"In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans","description":"The Halbjuden of Hitler's Germany were half Christian and half Jewish but, like the rest of the Mischlinge (or \"partial-Jews\"), were far too Jewish in the eyes of the Nazis. Thus, while they were allowed for a time to coexist with the rest of German society, they were granted only the most marginal or menial jobs, restricted from marrying Aryans or even leading normal social lives, and sent eventually to forced-labor and concentration camps. More than 70,000 Germans were subjected to these restrictions and indignities, created and fostered by Hitler's morally bankrupt race laws, yet to this day few personal accounts of their experiences exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Tent movingly recounts how these men and women from all over Germany and from all walks of life struggled to survive in an increasingly hostile society, even as their Jewish relatives were disappearing into the East. It draws on extensive interviews with twenty survivors, many of whom were teenagers when Hitler came to power, to show how \"half Jews\" coped with conditions on a day-to-day basis, and how the legacy of the hatred they suffered has forever lingered in their minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTent provides gripping stories of life beneath the boot-heel of Nazi rule: a woman deemed unsuited for a career in nursing because the shape of her earlobes and breasts indicated she was not \"racially suited,\" a man arrested for \"race defilement\" because he lived with an Aryan woman, and many others. Writing with a deep and abiding respect for his subjects, Tent shows how Nazi discrimination and persecution affected the lives of the Mischlinge beginning in 1933, and he tells how such treatment intensified through the later years of the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese testimonies offer rare insight into how Nazi persecution functioned at a very personal level. Tent's witnesses share experiences in school and problems in the workplace, where the best survival strategy was to find an unobtrusive niche in a nondescript job. They tell of obstacles to personal and romantic relationships. And they soberly remind us that by 1944 they too were rounded up for forced labor, certain to be the next victims of Nazi genocide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the lengths to which the Nazis were willing to go in order to eradicate Judaism--a fanaticism that increased over time and even in the face of impending military defeat. These people mostly survived the Holocaust, yet they paid for their re-assimilation into German society by remaining silent in the face of haunting memories. This book breaks that silence and is a testament to human endurance under the most trying circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James F. Tent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700612289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700612284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 6.26w x 1.08d","brand":"James F. Tent","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082551927039,"sku":"9780700612284","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-the-james-f-tent-9780700612284","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}