I learn 2 non-fiction books at my cottage in Canada final month, which is 1 under my common. (The climate was nicer than common.) One was The Nazi Officer’s Spouse: How One Jewish Girl Survived the Holocaust. The writer is Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin.
I’ll submit at the very least twice on the content material that caught my economist’s eye. I see economics in every single place.
Right here’s an fascinating 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 planet. The Nazis known 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 probably not 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? In fact they didn’t imagine it. They weren’t silly. However they’d suffered despair, inflation, and joblessness. They wished to be well-to-do once more, and the quickest method to accomplish that was to steal. Cultivating a perception within the greed of Jews gave them an excuse to steal all the pieces the Jews possessed. (pp. 56-57)
