As Nazi troops advanced eastward following Hitler’s megalomaniacal order to conquer living space for Aryan or really German citizens, they virtually depopulated entire villages along their marching routes chasing men, women and children from their homes, deporting them to ghettos and concentration camps or, even worse, massacring them on the spot without pity. Above all – though not only – the Jewish population suffered under the terror of the altogether cynical regime. But German reign over Poland was far from peaceful, even less welcome! Just like the French the Poles offered resistance from the start and as Germany continued her expansion politics invading even the Soviet Union the fight became fiercer and better organised. Partisan bands formed and among the fighters were also Russian Jews like the protagonist of Primo Levi’s novel If Not Now, When? that I reviewed in July 2016 and that I’m re-blogging today as a Bookish Déjà-Vu.
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I read If not now, when? a couple of years ago. It's a great book. Thanks for sharing. I know we have a similar taste.
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It's really a great book... from the pen of a great man who wished to share his own experience of deportation, conentration camps and fight for survival.
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Not the first time that we agree. I have read quite a few books on that genre, Primo Levi certainly deserves to be at the top of that list.
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