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Holocaust : a history / Debórah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dwork, Deborah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Germany.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Politics and government.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Great Britain edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Murray, [2002]
- Summary:
- Unrivaled in reach and scope, this volume illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, letters, diaries, 75 illustrations and 16 maps.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Death's Great Carnival xvii
- 1 Jews, Gentiles, and Germans 3
- 2 The Great War and Its Terrible Outcome 29
- 3 National Socialist Promise and Practice 63
- 4 The Third Reich 82
- 5 Refugees 103
- 6 Gentile Life under German Occupation 133
- 7 The Assault of Total War 166
- 8 Jewish Life under German Occupation 202
- 9 In the Shadow of Death 239
- 10 Toward the "Final Solution" 259
- 11 Holocaust 285
- 12 From Whence Would Help Come? 316
- 13 Rescue 337
- 14 The Concentration Camp World 356.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-428) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0719554853
- OCLC:
- 49355834
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