Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393064629)

The Allies stood by and watched Nazi Germany imprison and then murder six million Jews during World War II. How could the unthinkable have been allowed to happen? Theodore Hamerow reveals in the pages of this compelling book that each Western nation had its own version of the Jewish Question--its own type of anti-Semitism--which may not have been as virulent as in Eastern Europe but was disastrously crippling nonetheless. If just one country had opened its doors to Germany's already persecuted Jews in the 1930s, and if the Allies had attempted even one bombing of an extermination camp, the Holocaust would have been markedly different. Instead, by sitting on their hands, the West let Hitler solve their Jewish Question by eliminating European Jewry.

Author: Theodore S. Hamerow
ISBN-10: 039306462X
ISBN-13: 9780393064629
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.48w x 1.57d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 584
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2008 pg. 175
Library Journal 07/15/2008 pg. 93
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/15/2008 pg. 16
Multicultural Review 03/01/2009 pg. 59
Choice 07/01/2009