How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust / Dan McMillan ; designed by Jack Lenzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, Dan, Ph.D., author.

Contributor:

Lenzo, Jack, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Holocaust is the defining event of the twentieth century ? and perhaps all of modern history. Yet for too long, we have ignored the vital question of how and why such a monstrous event could have happened at all. Now, in How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the existing Holocaust research into a cogent explanation of the genocide's causes, revealing how a once progressive society like Germany could commit murder on such a massive scale. Countless barriers stand between stable societies and genocide, McMillan explains, but in Germany these buffers began to topp

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Posing the Question; 2. A Genocide Like No Other; 3. Why Germany?; 4. A World of Enemies; 5. Hardened by War; 6. Division and Disaster; 7. Why Hitler?; 8. From Dictator to Demigod; 9. Why the Jewish People?; 10. Hatred as Science; 11. The Absent Moral Compass; 12. What They Knew; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-03664-3