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• W4319288225 abstract "Reviewed by: Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich by Stephen H. Norwood Tony Kushner (bio) Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich. By Stephen H. Norwood. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 347 pp. Most of the literature on the western liberal democracies and the Jews during the Nazi era is top down, with the focus on how governments and their state apparatus responded (or failed to respond), especially through refugee policy. A grassroots approach, and one focusing especially on the American and British Jewish minorities, is thus greatly to be welcomed. Stephen Norwood is also to be congratulated on the scale of his research, examining a range of archives in the US and the U.K., supplemented by extensive newspaper and contemporary printed sources. There is, for example, recognition in this book of the remarkable role of the Manchester Guardian in reporting in daily detail of the plight of German Jewry during the 1930s. This continued during the Second World War and would merit a full-length study in itself. Norwood's approach is extensive; in covering two countries it is not surprising that the chronology is inevitably truncated, focusing on the [End Page 216] first three years of Nazi rule, with a concentrated epilogue covering 1936 to 1939. The first few chapters are not easy to read. This is not the fault of the author, whose prose is clear and fluent. It is simply the horror of the subject matter, which outlines how much humiliation of and violence toward the Jews was reported in the British and American press from the late 1920s on. These accounts read together are relentless and exhausting. Even so, they are necessary, showing how information was there for those in Britain and America to confront how intolerable the position of the Jews had so quickly become. Whether it was assimilated and understood is a different matter. With regard to this last point, there are limits to how Prologue to Annihilation constructs ordinariness. The great strengths of this book are how spontaneous organizations of American and British Jews came into existence from 1933 to protest against Nazi antisemitism and did so very publicly, in contrast to the more conservative and elite bodies such as the American Jewish Committee and Board of Deputies of British Jews. Huge public meetings, especially with those with East European Jewish origins, and the creation of a boycott movement of German goods was not to the taste of the Jewish establishment in both countries who preferred quiet diplomacy and, especially in the UK, feared an antisemitic backlash against open displays of protest. The boycott movement in America and Britain provides the excellent heart of this book. In both countries it was backed by non-Jews, especially in the organised labor movement, which recognized that Nazi antisemitism went hand in hand with the assault on German trade unions and the left in general. There is, however, no further drilling down of source material to understand how individual ordinary Jews in either country, or for that matter, ordinary non-Jews responded to Nazi persecution. Given the depth of coverage, it would be unfair to expect the author to have carried out further work, and sources would be harder to locate. Nevertheless, there is secondary literature, especially for the UK, which would have aided a more nuanced approach. The trade union movement in the UK was large and not uninfluential, and while there was ambivalence toward refugee entry, trade unions were consistently hostile to Nazism, including the regime's antisemitism. The welcome to visiting German warships in Anglo-American ports in the middle 1930s prompts the author to argue that this reflected the widespread insensitivity towards Jews among American citizens and British subjects (243). This is a sweeping generalization which does not do justice to the complexity of such responses which elsewhere Norwood has provided evidence of. For example, the at-best naïve visit of the British Legion to Germany in 1935, during which veterans were duped about the nature [End Page 217] of the Third Reich, including its growing concentration camp system, was met by widespread disgust by many of its..." @default.
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