Rita Steinhardt Botwinick (1923–2018)

I did not think this book was well written. It jumps around the timeline confusingly without following a clear chronology, it talks down to the reader, it expresses moral judgments that are unsupported and not argued for in the text (however valid they may be in the world at large) and, in my opinion, the analysis is entirely too United States-centric. How is a reader to take comparisons between Nazi Germany and "our country" (which the author appears to intend to refer to the United States in the late twentieth century) if the reader is not American? When my students write like this, I count points off their papers. I am not an expert on the Holocaust, but I'm sure there are better written accounts of it that are just as accurate.… (meer)