The Good Old Days: The Holocaust As Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

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Without specific spoilers however, in general I found the work to be a disappointment. I had no interest in reading about accommodation standards, what people ate or of the internal politics and positioning that happens within any group of people. Perhaps I was expecting more insight, or more consistent insight, into the minds of those who were there. Into the minds and motivations of those who were engaged in actions. Who perpetrated the outcomes. Traveling on the railroads was also not safe: in 1890 there were 10,000 deaths among passengers, with another 80,000 injuries. restaurant-featured-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-5.png', twentytwenty-fullscreen' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/img_ecdbe8d2-9a6a-42e6-8001-d1bf28b7d39h.png',ymal-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-5.png', Granted, this was a time of great technological advancement. The telephone, motion picture camera, and automobile are but a few of the modern conveniences that made their first appearance. But daily life was hardly the stuff of a Currier & Ives print, and Bettman presses the point with repulsive anecdotes and alarming statistics. Otto Bettmann made a career out of collecting images, he was the curator and the founder of the Bettmann archives (which are now property of Corbis). His skill at finding and choosing images is readily apparent in this book, and I'd recommend this book on the basis of the illustrations and photographs alone. post-thumbnail' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-5.png',

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