Reckonings
Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

Understanding the genocide during holocaust What made people to participate in a genocide that systematically killed six million Jews and destroyed much of Europe? How was that possible that Nazi-collaborators worked coherently to bring holocaust to a massive scale? Did anyone know what was happenin......more

For anyone who thinks the market for books about the Holocaust must be saturated and there is nothing left to say on the subject, ‘Reckonings ‘ proves them wrong. A very complex but readable account of the effects on the victims/survivors, the protagonists, the bystanders and their families both dur......more

In Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, Mary Fulbrook concentrates on the way that we—survivors, perpetrators, descendants, academics, non-academics, and so on—frame the Holocaust in our minds and our speech. Each of the three sections has a slightly different focus, b......more

This book is truly a magnificent achievement. Investigating the legacy of Nazi persecution, the author begins by examining the varying patterns of persecution, along the way exposing the falsehood of claims that people didn't know about 'it' as it occurred. It also emerges that despite the widesprea......more

The winner of this year's Wolfson award and I read it in particular for this reason and I was not let down. Fulbrook is an excellent narrator whose storytelling throughout the book was easy to follow even for a lay man on the subject though I do find the beginning and the conclusion of the book was......more