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The emperor of lies, by Steven Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death

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The emperor of lies, by Steven Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
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The emperor of lies
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by Steven Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
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In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. Chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime. Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? 2011
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