Why? : explaining the Holocaust /: explaining the Holocaust. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Why? : explaining the Holocaust /: explaining the Holocaust. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Why? : explaining the Holocaust
- Further Information:
- Note: Peter Hayes.
- Authors:
- Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7
- 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.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 940.53/1811
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
Antisemitism
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Persecutions
War -- Causes
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Germany -- Ethnic relations
Europe
Germany
History
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780393254372
0393254372 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780393254365
0393254364 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index.
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