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The enactment of the German extermination procedures that led to the killing of six-million European Jews relied upon several factors, such as the assistance of police sectors and local authorities, and the passivity of the communities, mainly of the religious and political elites. Required likewise was the patients' willingness to publish, frequently with the expectation of surviving long enough to flee the German vise. The Decades of Extermination, the conclusion of Saul Friedländer's main historic opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, examines the unity of the different facets of this many organized and continual of contemporary genocides. Within this unmatched work—based on the huge variety of files and an overpowering choir of sounds from journals, letters, and memoirs—the background of the Holocaust has discovered its defined illustration.