The Holocaust : events, motives and legacy / Martyn Housden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housden, Martyn, 1962-

Series:

Humanities Insights

History insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Holocaust has proved a defining event in German, European and even world history. It has left moral, legal and political legacies which shape the global community we live in today. This text is designed to introduce readers to the most important debat

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""About the author""; ""Chapter 1 Anti-Semitism and Jewish policy up to 1939""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Anti-Semites and what they said""; ""1.3 Hitler and Nazism""; ""1.4 From 1933 to 1939""; ""1.5 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2 The Pursuit of the Holocaust""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 1939�1940: Feeling the way""; ""2.3 1941. A new mood""; ""2.4 Garden of Eden""; ""2.5 The technology of mass murder""; ""2.6 Wannsee and beyond.""; ""2.7 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3 The motives of the perpetrators""

""3.1 Introduction""""3.2 Hitler�s Willing Executioners. Daniel Goldhagen""; ""3.3 Ordinary Men. Christopher Browning""; ""3.4 Bureaucracy and genocide""; ""3.5 Bureaucracy and the modern world ""; ""3.3 Criticisms of bureaucratic theory""; ""3.4 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 How bystanders reacted""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Germans as bystanders""; ""4.3 Other states: collaboration""; ""4.3 Other states: resistance""; ""4.4 The Vatican and the Holocaust ""; ""4.5 Allied statesmen ""; ""4.6 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5 The victims� view of the world""; ""5.1 Introduction""

""5.2 Germany�s Jewish citizens""""5.3 Life in the ghettos""; ""5.4 Leadership and choice""; ""5.5 Making opportunities to escape and resist""; ""5.6 Death camps and attempts to survive them""; ""5.7 Jews as partisans""; ""5.8 Conclusion""; ""Conclusion: the legacy of the Holocaust""; ""6.1 The Holocaust as �moral resource�""; ""6.2 Legal legacy. Nuremberg, crimes against humanity and international justice""; ""6.3 Legal legacy. National responses""; ""6.4 Political legacy. Uses and abuses of history""; ""6.5 Conclusion. The root of it all�personal legacies""

""Selected bibliography""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-04041-3

9786612040412

1-84760-048-4

OCLC:

666918849