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The Holocaust : a concise history / Doris L. Bergen.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DD256.5 .B3916 2009b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bergen, Doris L.
- Standardized Title:
- War & genocide
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- History.
- National socialism.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Causes.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- x, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : [Distributed by National Book Network], [2009]
- Summary:
- In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this history traces not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the disabled, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide--purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space--and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including illustrations and firsthand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.
- Contents:
- Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early-twentieth-century Europe
- Leadership and will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology
- From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938
- Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939
- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program
- Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941
- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943
- Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945.
- Notes:
- Distributor from jacket flap.
- Originally published under title: War & genocide.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742557147
- 0742557146
- OCLC:
- 318421257
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