War & genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust

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War & genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust

Doris L. Bergen

Rowman & Littlefield, c2003

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War and genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index

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In examining one of the defining events of the 20th Century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, Homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled people and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi program of conquest and genocide-purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space. She examines how these goals affected the course of World War II and the book includes first-hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, making it immediate, human and eminently readable.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Conclusion
  • Preconditions: Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Common Prejudices in Early 20th-Century Europe
  • Leadership and Will: Adolph Hitler, the National Socialst 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--Killing Frenzies, 1944-1945.

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