The Years of Extermination

Summary

The second volume of Friedländer's monumental history of Nazi Germany and the Jews, covering the war years from 1939 to 1945 in which the Holocaust was carried out. He weaves together perpetrator documents, bystander accounts, and the diaries and letters of victims to render the catastrophe at both continental and intimate scales. The integrative method has become a touchstone for how historians narrate genocide.