Why? : explaining the Holocaust
Title
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Why? : explaining the Holocaust
Personal Author EPSB
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Peter, Hayes
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.
Other Title
:
Explaining the Holocaust
Year Published
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2017
Physical Description
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xvi, 412 p. : 25 cm.
Edition
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1st ed.
Contents
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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.
Subject
:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Antisemitism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic Term
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Germany -- Ethnic relations.
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.
ISBN
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9780393254365
Publisher
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New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923, c2017.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Edmonton Christian High | 940.53 HAY | Book | 30905000118012 | Non-Fiction |