TY  - GEN
T1  - Between persecution and participation : biography of a bookkeeper at J.A. Topf & Söhne
T2  - Modern Jewish history.
A1  - Schüle, Annegret, 1959-
A1  - Sowade, Tobias, 1988-
A2  - Milbouer, Penny
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Syracuse, New York
PB  - Syracuse University Press
YR  - 2018
ED  - First edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1047526115
AB  - This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908-1983) was declared a half-Jew by the laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and his father were briefly interned in Buchenwald. Although his father was eventually executed in Auschwitz in 1943, Willy went on to become an accountant for J. A. Topf & Söhne, the manufacturer of the ovens used in the death of his father as well as thousands of others in concentration camps. Persecuted by the Nazis, he also participated, minimally, in the Nazi-led genocide. This paradox and Willy's liminal status gives his fascinating biography historical significance, adding a new dimension to our understanding of what the Nazi race policies meant to ordinary Germans. In this brief telling of an otherwise average man's life, Schüle and Sowade reveal the pervasive and long-term effect of the race laws. Based solely on archival records, Willy's story gives insight into the muddled and impossible choices of vulnerable individuals living under the Third Reich and the blurred boundaries between victim, bystander, and accomplice.
CN  - DS134.42.W534 S38 2018
SN  - 9780815654636
SN  - 0815654634
SN  - 9780815636106
SN  - 9780815636168
SN  - 0815636164
KW  - Wiemokli, Willy, : 1908-1983.
KW  - Firma J.A. Topf & Söhne : Employees.
KW  - Firma J.A. Topf & Söhne
KW  - Accountants : Germany : Biography.
KW  - Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935) : Germany : Biography.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Comptables : Allemagne : Biographies.
KW  - Mischlinge (Lois de Nuremberg, 1935) : Allemagne : Biographies.
KW  - Holocauste, 1939-1945.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : General.
KW  - Accountants
KW  - Employees
KW  - Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -