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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders |  | Creators: Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess, Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher: William S. Konecky Associates
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 1568521332
Dewey Decimal Number: 943
EAN: 9781568521336
ASIN: 1568521332
Publication Date: March 1, 1996
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 Must read book on the holocaust March 26, 2010
Gerald Kipphorn (Pa United States)
I borrowed this book from a friend after reading reviews on Amazon. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust. This book was hard to put down after getting started reading it. To read about it from the Germans point of view does not make it right or even justifiable. This is a very disturbing look at the Holocaust from the German officers point of view like the title says.
The only thing I would like to have read more about and it seems as though more could be written is some of the officers or people in this book. One of the final parts of the book tells the reader what had happened to the officers that were mentioned in this book. I'm not too sure what titles that are listed in book searches on the Holocaust are based on fact but wish a little more was available on this subject. It would be interesting to see or read these peoples thoughts on what they were doing, again not that it was right.
 shocked to know officers were not punished if they refused August 9, 2009
Debra North (charlotte, n.c. USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Good old days is an historical account of wittnesses inside the einsatzgruppen murders of jews.
it was not hard to understand that most of the men doing the shooting got sick to the point of having to get drunk to forget.
what i DID find shocking was that many of these wittnesses told that if they refused to shoot jews, they were assigned to another job...it was not 'following orders', or the fact that they either did this job or they were punished severly.... not true. simply, they all could have, had they chosen to, not do the job of shooting jews by massacaring them as they dug their own graves.....
the soldiers tell their stories, in their own words...
a riviting account of the 'good old days''
i recommend this book to anyone studying nazi history, and those who want the truth instead of propaganda.
The Good Old Days March 5, 2009
Lou Conde (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book, an account of the barbarity committed by Germans, and others, should be required reading for all German schoolkids and grown-ups who question whether the Holocaust ever happened. While the Jews seldom mention the more than 20 million other human beings that were ordered killed by Hitler and Stalin that does not mean that they were not also slaughtered. I am not a Jew, but I am a student of History and I can not understand how human beings can do this to their fellow-man. This book contains first hand accounts of the atrocities committed by Germans, Ukranians, Latvians.Estonians, and Lithuanians against their Jewish neighbors. How many Albert Einsteins and Jonas Salks may have been eliminated? This book is a chilling account of human beings exibiting their very worst behavior.
a disturbing read February 22, 2009
relichunter (oregon United States)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
this book is disturbing to read,actually the murders commited by the lithuanian criminals made me cringe,as it reminds one that these things are still going on in the world,such as the atrocities commited by the serbians in the balkans,these men are worse than animals,men of the einsatzgruppen and the sonderkommand were not of the same cloth and caliber as soldiers of the panzergruppe or the luftwaffe,very few were awarded merit,most were weak minded criminals given power to do as they please,one can only hope they have no afterlife, they deserve to never live again.
Evil and Injustice Defined - A Must Read for everyone January 13, 2009
R. Philip (Edmonton, Alberta)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book documents the activities of the Einsatzgruppen or "Task Forces" which the Third Reich used to murder millions of helpless children,women and men primarily by firing squad. They murdered more than 38,000 people in 1 day alone at Babi Yar and started murdering with gas only because this method was too inefficient for all the millions the Nazis wanted to murder.
As others have commented on reviews of other Einsatzgruppen books - this is very,very,very disturbing and difficult reading even for anyone since it describes a depth of inhumanity most refuse to believe is possible.
Among the horrors this book describes "Mass Murder Tourism" where Wehrmacht officers travel around the Eastern front to watch murder squads conducting "Special Operations". Of course these special operations were always conducted against unarmed helpless children,women and men.
Outside of General Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz, Fmr. Commander of 1,8 & 9 Armies and Frmr Commander of Army Groups G&H. Precious few resigned or protested to OKW about what was going on.
Oh yes and Von Stauffenberg and company only considered action when the war was being lost otherwise they seem like they would have been very happy with Fortress Europa and the new Lebensraum in the east.
There were other plots against the Fuhrer before that but none came to fruition.
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