I learn 2 non-fiction books at my cottage in Canada final month, which is 1 beneath my common. (The climate was nicer than common.) One was The Nazi Officer’s Spouse: How One Jewish Girl Survived the Holocaust. The creator is Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin.
I’ll submit at the least twice on the content material that caught my economist’s eye. I see economics all over the place.
Right here’s an attention-grabbing dialogue about how the Nazis propagandized towards wealth that comparatively affluent Jews in Austria had acquired:
The Nazi radio blamed us for each filthy evil factor on the earth. The Nazis referred to as us subhuman and, within the subsequent breath, superhuman; accused us of plotting to homicide them, to rob them blind; declared that they needed to conquer the world to forestall us from conquering the world. The radio mentioned that we should be dispossessed of all we owned; that my father, who had dropped useless whereas working, had not likely labored for our nice flat—the leather-based chairs within the eating room, the earrings in my mom’s ears—that we had in some way stolen them from Christian Austria, which now had each proper to take them again.
Did our mates and our neighbors actually imagine this? After all they didn’t imagine it. They weren’t silly. However they’d suffered despair, inflation, and joblessness. They needed to be well-to-do once more, and the quickest strategy to accomplish that was to steal. Cultivating a perception within the greed of Jews gave them an excuse to steal every part the Jews possessed. (pp. 56-57)