![]() The decency of some Germans served to lull Jews into a false sense of security, as did the Nazi regime's uncertainty about how it would deal with the Jews. Another Gentile, Emil Busse, was a close family friend who took many risks to help the Gays escape Germany. Even after the Nazis came to power, he continued to spend summers with the Gentile parents of the family's maid they were like a second set of parents to him. Gay was born in 1923 and recalls his first ten years as idyllic. In his examination of the behavior of German Jews, Gay rejects the claim made by Gershom Scholem that while the Jews loved the Germans, the Germans never loved the Jews. On a personal level Gay explores how growing up in Nazi Germany affected him. ![]() ![]() From a historical perspective he explains why German Jews did not leave the country as soon as Adolf Hitler became chancellor on 30 January 1933 and why they meekly submitted to increasingly anti-Semitic decrees and violence. In My German Question (1998) Peter Gay discusses the Holocaust from two viewpoints. MY GERMAN QUESTION: GROWING UP IN NAZI BERLIN ![]()
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