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The Holocaust / Peter Neville.
LIBRA D810.J4 N48 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neville, Peter, 1944-
- Series:
- Cambridge perspectives in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Physical Description:
- vii, 103 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The Holocaust, the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis, stands out as one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. This book presents an authoritative and lucid study of the main aspects of the Holocaust. In concise chapters, Peter Neville surveys the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and examines the influence of anti-Semitic ideas on Hitler and the Nazi Party. Drawing on recent research, the author explores and examines a number of issues including the tensions between the extermination programme and the German war economy; the development and effectiveness of the Jewish resistance; and the response of the Allies to the Holocaust. The final chapters consider the issue of Holocaust denial and assess the legacy of the Holocaust to the modern world. The Holocaust contains a selection of primary and secondary sources.
- Contents:
- The historical debate 1
- The Jewish experience 2
- 1 Anti-Semitism in European and German history 4
- The religious dimension 4
- The Enlightenment 5
- State-sponsored anti-Semitism 5
- German anti-Semitism 6
- Hitler's anti-Semitism 9
- 2 Anti-Semitism and the rise of the Nazi Party 15
- The rise of the racist right 15
- German politics, 1919-24 16
- Hitler's 'beerhall Putsch' 16
- The writing of Mein Kampf 17
- The lean years 18
- The Nazi achievement of power 19
- 3 The Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany 22
- Hitler in power: the Jewish response 22
- The shop boycott 23
- The legal assault 23
- The emigration option 24
- The Nuremberg Laws 26
- The Austrian model 28
- One Jew's experience 29
- 4 The coming of the Holocaust, 1938-41 32
- Kristallnacht 32
- The historical debate 35
- The emigration option 36
- Hitler's speech of 30 January 1939 38
- The decision for genocide 39
- A war of revenge 40
- The road to the death camps 41
- The Wannsee Conference 42
- 5 The killing machine 47
- The death camps 47
- The problem of resistance 52
- Jewish culture 55
- The Hungarian Jews 56
- 6 The foreign reaction to the Holocaust 59
- The foreign reaction to the Nazi accession to power 59
- When the Allies knew 61
- The Vatican 63
- The Protestant churches 64
- War crimes 64
- The Hungarian Jews 65
- 7 The Holocaust deniers 69
- Holocaust denial in the United States 69
- Holocaust denial in Europe 71
- The significance of the Holocaust denial 72
- 8 East and west: collaboration and the Holocaust experience 75
- The experience of Jews in western Europe 75
- Yugoslavia 76
- Collaboration with the Nazis 76
- Central and eastern Europe 78
- 9 The legacy of the Holocaust 83
- Crime and punishment 83
- De-Nazification 85
- Compensation 86
- Israel and the Holocaust 87
- The non-Jewish world and the Holocaust 90
- The Holocaust in memory 91.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0521595010
- OCLC:
- 42050184
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