With the monumental The Third Reich and the Jews, Saul Friedländer culminates a lifetime of study on the Holocaust. Published in two independent volumes: The Years of the Persecution (1933-1939) and The Years of Extermination (1939-1945), in it Friedländer carries out a detailed analysis of Third Reich ideology, society and politics, which serves as a framework for the impressive testimonies left by the victims of Nazi unreason, to which the historian gives his pen. If The years of extermination relates the mass murder of Jews parallel to the expansion of the Reich by Europe, in The years of the persecution the author us enters in the ideological marasmo of the time and narrates how the Nazi State articulated the initial phase of his crusade antisemitic Thus, we are witnessing the establishment of legal measures that will allow us to identify and confine ourselves to segregated Jewish spaces, as they live between the bewilderment, the fear and the hope that the situation will go no further than the impending drama that looms about them. "A masterpiece of historiography that possesses the strength and quality of a work of art."