If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the Ge...
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Oct 26, 2011
Meaghan
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People tend to forget, in all the talk about lives lost during the Holocaust, of the plundered property. Gotz Aly's study of the Fromm family, and how their wealth was stripped down to nothing by the Nazis, brings the stolen property to the forefront and it really got me thinking about Rudolf Vrba's theory that the real motive behind the Holocaust was steal Jews' wealth and belongings. Julius Fromm was a wealthy manufacturer of condoms and his brand -- under new ownership -- is well-known in Ger
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Nov 08, 2011
Newhamshter
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A new perspective departing from the typical Holocaust memoir detailing experience in the concentration camps. This book gave me an idea of the economics of stripping Jews of their citizenship and, later, attempting to dehumanize them.
Jan 24, 2011
Rose
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Fast read (which explains why I finished it). Quick, interesting & sad. Details a family's experience during and after Nazi Germany. All wrapped around an interesting product ~condoms. And other rubber products.
Jan 20, 2011
J.M.
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This was an interesting book. I had anticipated more emphasis on why Fromm went into the condom business, as well as more detail on how condoms are made, but instead the bulk of the book was an accounting of the thefts perpetrated against the Fromm family by the Nazis. While I had heard of Nazis appropriating Jewish property, this book goes into more depth about the extent of the crimes. Overall I liked it, but I would have liked to know more about Fromm's feelings during and after the war.
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