Reviews for Other Victims

The average rating for Other Victims based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-31 00:00:00 Anthony Cassano So far this is an interesting and earnest book but I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that the author detours around the biggest "other victim group" of the Nazis -- the Ukrainians. This book was published in 1990, so perhaps the author didn't have access to the wealth of primary material that is now available. Even so, it's a pretty big omission: more than 10 million Ukrainian civilians were killed by the Nazis, and that's not counting the millions who were killed by the Soviets during the same period, nor does it touch on the many millions of military deaths by both the Soviets and Nazis. Addendum -- finished the book. My initial assessment stands: the author has gone out of her way to diminish the Nazis' murderous intentions toward Ukrainians. Most chapters are made up of a short first person account by a survivor of a representative group (Gypsy, Czech, French etc) and these are introduced by the author with a historical overview for context. The first person accounts talk about their own treatment, but most also mention the horrible treatment meted out to Ukrainians -- yet the author herself has avoided the topic and did not bother to include a single Ukrainian survivor in her interviews. The book does more to perpetuate racism than dispel it.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-18 00:00:00 Christian Jagodzinski This book told very good perspectives about the other humans that were involved with the holocaust. It was very detailed and interesting. I liked it because it showed that the holocaust was not only about the jews but about other people that were in trouble for doing something wrong or they spoke out twards the germans.