Hitler and the Holocaust by Robert S. Wistrich

Hitler and the Holocaust (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 Hardcover in Dust Jacket)

A Clear-Eyed Account of Hitler's Role in the Nazi Persecution and Murder of Europe's Jews

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Hitler and the Holocaust
• Author: Robert S. Wistrich
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• ISBN-13: 9780297643739
• ISBN-10: 0297643738
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Binding: Publisher's green cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket, the spine in black and pink stripes.
• Physical Format: Octavo-sized hardcover, 322 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: The green cloth boards are clean, with a few tiny pale specks and a slight bump to the top fore-corner. The boards are protected by the dust jacket, whose condition is described below.
• Interior: The text block is tight and clean, with the sampled text page free of marking. The page edges are toned and the paper slightly browned with age. The endpapers are a bright red. A bookseller's pencil price and stock number appear at the top of the title page.
• Provenance: An illegible signature dated '03 in black ink on the front free endpaper, and a second illegible signature dated '03 in green ink on the title page. Pencil notes at the top of the title page read '#1009' and 'R150-'.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The illustrated jacket is clean and generally sound at the edges, with minor handling wear, a small scuff or mark at the foot of the spine over the publisher's logo, and a few small spots on the front panel. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published in London in 2001, Hitler and the Holocaust is Robert Wistrich's concise history of the Nazi persecution and extermination of the Jews. It traces the roots of antisemitism in Europe, and in Germany in particular, and follows Hitler's rise to power and the radicalisation that led to a programme of mass murder.

The book also examines who knew of the killings, how responsibility should be divided between Hitler and ordinary Germans, and the role of the Christian churches, including the Pope's silence. It closes with the legacy of the Holocaust in the postwar world.

Reviewers described it as an accessible and balanced general history, if grim reading. It is a useful, readable companion for anyone studying the Second World War and the Third Reich, offered here as a used collectible copy in its original dust jacket and carrying two dated signatures from a previous owner.

Author Profile: Robert S. Wistrich

Robert S. Wistrich (1945-2015) was born in the Soviet Union, raised in England and educated at Cambridge and London. He held academic chairs at London and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and from 2002 directed the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

He was best known for Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (1991), which was adapted as a television series, and for Weekend in Munich, on Nazi art propaganda. His later A Lethal Obsession (2010) followed antisemitism from antiquity to global jihad.

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