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Jews for Sale permits Yehuda Bauer's reasonable voice and scholarly virtues to enter this acrimonious debate in an attempt to counter some of the .

Jews for Sale permits Yehuda Bauer's reasonable voice and scholarly virtues to enter this acrimonious debate in an attempt to counter some of the more impassioned accusations arising from it and to divine the truth. He is calming, enlightening, persuasive, and of course, not wholly successful in his efforts-largely because of the subject's inherent difficulties and because he too has an agenda.

In Bauer's view, resistance to the Nazis comprised not only physical opposition, but any activity that gave the Jewish people dignity and humanity in the most . Jews for Sale? Nazi–Jewish Negotiations 1933–1945. Yale University Press, 1994, p. 72. ^ Vrba, Rudolf.

In Bauer's view, resistance to the Nazis comprised not only physical opposition, but any activity that gave the Jewish people dignity and humanity in the most humiliating and inhumane conditions. Furthermore, Bauer has disputed the popular view that most Jews went to their deaths passively-"like sheep to the slaughter". He argues that, given the conditions in which the Jews of Eastern Europe had to live under and endure, what is surprising is not how little resistance there was, but rather how much.

Bauer then concentrates on the negotiations that took place between 1942 and 1945 as Himmler tried to keep open options for a separate peace with the Western powers

Bauer then concentrates on the negotiations that took place between 1942 and 1945 as Himmler tried to keep open options for a separate peace with the Western powers. In fascinating detail Bauer portrays the dramatic intrigues that took place: a group of Jewish leaders bribed a Nazi official to stop the deportation of Slovakian Jews; a Czech Jew kwn as Dogwood tried to create an alliance between American leaders and conservative German anti-Nazis; Adolf Eichmann's famous trucks for blood proposal to exchange one million Jews for trucks to use. against the Soviets failed because of Western.

Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. Tormenting questions arise throughout Bauer's discussion

Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials. Not as well known, however, are many other equally dramatic attempts to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods, or political benefits. Tormenting questions arise throughout Bauer's discussion. If the Nazis were actually willing to surrender more Jews, should the Allies have acted on the offer? Did the efforts to exchange lives for money constitute collaboration with the enemy or heroism?

Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. In this riveting book, a leading Holocaust scholar examines the dramatic attempts to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods, or political benefits, and explores the moral issues raised by the negotiations. Published by: Yale University Press. The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials

Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945.

Jews for Sale? NaziJewish Negotiations, 1933–1945. Michael Burleigh, "Yehuda Bauer, Jews for Sale? NaziJewish Negotiations, 1933–1945," The Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (December 1997): 893-895. Yale University Press, 1994.