A review by antlersantlers
What Was the Holocaust? by Who HQ, Gail Herman

4.0

I've paged through tons of the Who HQ books and this is the second one I've read. I was really impressed with how frankly it addressed the Holocaust but tailored to a younger reader. At several points it addresses Hitler's gradual rise to power, emphasizing that it wasn't sudden but calculated over a period of years. It also ends talking about the complacency of most of the German populace. Herman highlights some people who stood up against the Nazis, but talks about how most people didn't do that. They chose to watch the events happen and do nothing. It goes well with an ADL webinar I recently watched, Choices Matter: Complicity and Action during the Holocaust. I was definitely more impressed with this than I was the Stonewall one.