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Why? : explaining the Holocaust / Peter Hayes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- History.
- Germany.
- Jews--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions--Europe--History--20th century.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- War--Causes.
- Europe.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History.
- Holocaust, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, 1939-1945--Causes.
- Local Subjects:
- Antisemitism--Germany--History.
- Holocaust, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, 1939-1945--Causes.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
- Summary:
- An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights.
- Contents:
- Why another book on the Holocaust?
- Targets : Why the Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation and backlash
- Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity
- Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses
- Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement
- Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps
- Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland
- Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities
- Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393254365
- 0393254364
- OCLC:
- 951070866
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