How long does it take to read The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939?
The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939 by Saul Friedländer takes about 8 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 436 pages, about 119,900 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Giving considerable emphasis to an immense array of recently published material and a wealth of new archival findings, Saul Friedlander describes and interprets the steadily increasing anti-Jewish persecution in Germany after the 1933 Nazi accession to power. He demonstrates the interaction between intentions and contingencies, between discernible causes and changing circumstances. Friedlander shows how Nazi ideological objectives and tactical policy decisions enhanced one another and always left an opening for ever more radical moves.
Subjects: Ethnic relations, History, Jews, Persecutions, Joden, Nationaal-socialisme
